Increased hunting effort buffers against vole scarcity in an urban Kestrel Falco tinnunculus population

Bird Study

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 353-361

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; DIET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HUNTING; PREY AVAILABILITY; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; URBAN AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

AVES; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MURIDAE;

EID: 36048985090     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650709461495     Document Type: Article

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