A non-invasive technique to bleed incubating birds without trapping: A blood-sucking bug in a hollow egg

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-118

  Becker, Peter H ^a   Voigt, Christian C ^b   Arnold, Jennifer M ^c   Nagel, Rolf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial egg; Blood suckingbug; Incubating birds; Non invasive bleeding; Sterna hirundo

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; INCUBATION; METHODOLOGY; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; PASSERINE;

AVES; DIPETALOGASTER MAXIMUS; HETEROPTERA; INSECTA; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 31144475788     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-005-0027-3     Document Type: Article

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