Nest-site re-use: Marsh Tit Poecile palustris decisions in a primeval forest

Bird Study

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 199-204

  Wesołowski, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD REARING; DISTURBANCE; ECTOPARASITE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT USE; NEST SITE; NESTING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

AVES; PARUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 33746112613     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650609461434     Document Type: Article

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