A rat-resistant artificialnest box for cavity-nesting birds

Human-Wildlife Interactions

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 100-105

  Pitt, William C ^a   Driscoll, Laura C ^a   Vander Werf, Eric A ^b  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Pacific Rim Conservation   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificialnest; Hawaii; Human wildlife conflicts; Introduced predators; Myadestes palmeri; Nest predation; Puaiohi

Indexed keywords

AVES; MYADESTES PALMERI; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84860997991     PISSN: 21553858     EISSN: 21553874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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