Use of time-lapse video cameras to determine causes of nest failure of Slavonian Grebes Podiceps auritus

Bird Study

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 159-165

  Perkins, Allan J ^a   Hancock, Mark H ^a   Butcher, Nigel ^a   Summers, Ron W ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; NEST PREDATION; NESTING SUCCESS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

CARNIVORA; CORVUS CORONE; FULICA ATRA; LARUS CANUS; LUTRA LUTRA; LUTRINAE; MUSTELA ERMINEA; MUSTELA VISON; PODICEPS AURITUS; PODICIPEDIDAE;

EID: 21344460974     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650509461386     Document Type: Article

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