Individual differences in nest defense in the colonial breeding Black-tailed Gulls

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1239-1246

  Kazama, Kentaro ^a   Watanuki, Yutaka ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Black tailed Gull; Coloniality; Group living; Mobbing; Neighbor; Nest defense

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTIFICIAL NEST; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COLONIAL BREEDING; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EGG PREDATION; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; NEST GUARDING; NEST PREDATION; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; SEABIRD;

CORVIDAE; CORVUS MACRORHYNCHOS; LARUS CRASSIROSTRIS;

EID: 77954538124     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0938-8     Document Type: Article

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