Behaviour and stress response during capture and handling of the red-billed chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Aves: Corvidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 846-855

  Laiolo, Paola ^a   Banda, Eva ^b   Lemus, Jesús A ^c   Aguirre, Jose I ^b   Blanco, Guillermo ^c  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aggressive behaviour; Distress calls; Heterophil lymphocyte ratio; Physiological stress

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CAPTURE METHOD; HANDLING STRESS; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS;

AVES; CORVIDAE; PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX;

EID: 63849192646     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01174.x     Document Type: Article

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