Young and female-biased irruptions in pygmy owls Glaucidium passerinum in southern Finland

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 564-569

  Lehikoinen, Aleksi ^a   Hokkanen, Tatu ^b   Lokki, Heikki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NESTING; POPULATION MIGRATION; RAPTOR; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TERRITORY; TREEHOLE; YOUNG POPULATION;

FINLAND;

AVES; GLAUCIDIUM (AVES); GLAUCIDIUM PASSERINUM; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 84855333885     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2011.05461.x     Document Type: Article

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