Familiarity with breeding habitat improves daily survival in colonial cliff swallows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1201-1210

  Brown, Charles R ^a   Brown, Mary Bomberger ^a   Brazeal, Kathleen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

cliff swallow; coloniality; dispersal; habitat selection; immigration; Petrochelidon pyrrhonota; social behaviour; survival

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING; DISPERSAL; FUMIGATION; HABITAT SELECTION; IMMIGRATION; NESTING; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL;

NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; HIRUNDINIDAE; PETROCHELIDON PYRRHONOTA;

EID: 51649121249     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.03.028     Document Type: Article

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