Red-backed Shrikes {Lanius collurio) adjust the mobbing intensity, but not mobbing frequency, by assessing the potential threat to themselves from different predators

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 206-215

  Strnad, Martin ^a   Němec, Michal ^b   Veselý, Petr ^b   Fuchs, Roman ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DIET; FERAL ORGANISM; MOBBING; NEST GUARDING; NEST PREDATION; NESTLING; PASSERINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR;

ACCIPITER NISUS; AVES; COLUMBA; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; LANIIDAE; LANIUS COLLURIO; PASSERI; RAPTORES;

EID: 84869131452     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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