How urban Kestrels Falco tinnunculus divide their hunting grounds: Partitioning or cohabitation?

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-76

  Riegert, Jan ^a   Fainová, Drahomíra ^a   Mikeš, Václav ^a   Fuchs, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Falco tinnunculus; Hunting range; Kestrel; Urban

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COHABITATION; HUNTING; NESTING; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RANGE SIZE;

BOHEMIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

FALCO TINNUNCULUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 34548299683     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/068.042.0101     Document Type: Article

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