High mortality of Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus nestlings during consecutive rainfall

Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-39

  Imanishi, Sadao ^a  

^a YAMASHINA INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bull headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus; Consecutive rainfall; Mortality; Nestling; Nobeyama plateau

Indexed keywords

LANIUS BUCEPHALUS;

EID: 58149103372     PISSN: 13485032     EISSN: 18820999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3312/jyio.39.35     Document Type: Article

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