Inter-nest infanticide in Ardeids

Waterbirds

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 256-257

  Parkes, Michael L ^a,b  

^a Cypress Grove Research Center   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ardea alba; Black crowned Night Heron; Brood reduction; Great Egret; Intraspecific predation; Nest mortality; Nest predation; Nycticorax nycticorax

Indexed keywords

INFANTICIDE; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MORTALITY; NEST PREDATION; WADER;

ARDEA ALBA; ARDEIDAE; NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX;

EID: 23744516066     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2005)028[0256:IIIA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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