Potential prey make excellent ornithologists: Adaptive, flexible responses towards avian predation threat by Arabian Babblers Turdoides squamiceps living at a migratory hotspot

Ibis

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 664-671

  Edelaar, Pim ^a,b   Wright, Jonathan ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIODIVERSITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATION; PASSERINE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

AVES; RAPTORES; TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES SQUAMICEPS;

EID: 33750176891     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00567.x     Document Type: Article

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