Nestling food of European hole-nesting passerines: Do we know enough to test the adaptive hypotheses on breeding seasons?

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 105-116

  Cholewa, Marta ^a   Wesołowski, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus; caterpillar peak; climate change; Coal Tit Periparus ater; Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis; Crested Tit Lophophanes cristatus; Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea; European Starling Sturnus vulgaris; Great Tit Parus major; Marsh Tit Poecile palustris; Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca; Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus; timing of breeding; Willow Tit Poecile montanus

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; DIET; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NESTLING; PASSERINE; SYNCHRONY;

EUROPE;

AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; LOPHOPHANES CRISTATUS; PARUS MAJOR; PARUS MONTANUS; PARUS PALUSTRIS; PERIPARUS ATER; PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS; SALIX; SITTA EUROPAEA; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 84858200248     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/000164511X625874     Document Type: Article

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