Spatial behaviour of little owls (Athene noctua) in a declining low-density population in Denmark

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 537-548

  Sunde, Peter ^a   Thorup, Kasper ^b,c   Jacobsen, Lars B ^b   Holsegård Rasmussen, Miriam H ^a,b   Ottessen, Nina ^b   Svenné, Susanne ^b   Rahbek, Carsten ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Home range; Mate association; Residency; Telemetry; Territory fidelity

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; HOME RANGE; MATE FIDELITY; MATE GUARDING; PAIR BOND; POPULATION DECLINE; RADIOTELEMETRY; RAPTOR; TERRITORIALITY;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ATHENE NOCTUA; AVES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 67649989525     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-009-0378-2     Document Type: Article

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