Nesting ecology of the Rusty Blackbird in Alaska and Canada

Condor

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 810-824

  Matsuoka, Steven M ^a,f   Shaw, David ^b   Sinclair, Pamela H ^c   Johnson, James A ^a   Corcoran, Robin M ^d,g   Dau, Niels C ^a   Meyers, Paul M ^e,h   Rojek, Nora A ^a  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b Alaska Bird Observatory   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d Innoko National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^e USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^h Willapa Bay National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Canada; Euphagus carolinus; Nest success; Nest survival; Nest site selection; Nesting ecology; Rusty blackbird

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA; EUPHAGUS; EUPHAGUS CAROLINUS; PICEA; PICEA MARIANA; SALIX; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 78650648708     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2010.100149     Document Type: Article

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