To run or to fly: Low cost versus low risk escape strategies in blackbirds

Behaviour

Volumn 145, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1125-1138

  Rodriguez Prieto, Iñaki ^a   Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^b   Martín, José ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance fled; Escape strategy; Flight initiation distance; Landing distance

Indexed keywords

AVES; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 44349102970     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853908784474489     Document Type: Article

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