Do breeding Ural owls Strix uralensis protect ground nests of birds?: An experiment using dummy nests

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-148

  Halme, Panu ^a   Häkkilä, Matti ^a   Koskela, Esa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Artificial nests; Edge effect; Nest predation; Strix uralensis; Ural owl

Indexed keywords

AVES; CORVIDAE; MURIDAE; MUSTELA; MUSTELA NIVALIS; MUSTELINAE; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX; STRIX URALENSIS;

EID: 3042825499     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.2004.019     Document Type: Article

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