Sanitation of entire broods of dead nestlings may bias cause-specific nest failure rates

Ibis

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 207-211

  Kirkpatrick, Chris ^a   Conway, Courtney J ^a   Ali, Moez H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Ground nesting birds; Inclement weather; Nest abandonment; Nest fate; Nest monitoring; Nest predation; Nestling mortality; Nestling starvation; Red faced Warbler; Video cameras; Yellow eyed Junco

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY; NEST PREDATION; NESTING; NESTLING; SANITATION; SONGBIRD; STARVATION; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CARDELLINA; JUNCO PHAEONOTUS;

EID: 58149103718     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00893.x     Document Type: Article

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