Do Tengmalm's owls alter parental feeding effort under varying conditions of main prey availability?

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 231-237

  Zárybnická, Markéta ^a   Sedláček, Ondáčnej ^b   Korpimäki, Erkki ^c  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aegolius funereus; Diet; Feeding frequency; Parental effort

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLEDGING; NESTLING; PREY AVAILABILITY; RAPTOR;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ERZGEBIRGE MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

AEGOLIUS FUNEREUS; APODEMUS; CLETHRIONOMYS; MICROTUS; MURIDAE; MUS; SOREX; SORICIDAE; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 57649200719     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-008-0342-6     Document Type: Article

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