Fight or flight: Parental decisions about predators at nests of northern bobwhites (colinus virginianus)

Auk

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 637-644

  Ellis Felege, Susan N ^a,d   Burnam, Jonathan S ^b   Palmer, William E ^c   Sisson, D Clay ^c   Carroll, John P ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Colinus virginianus; Nest defense; Nest predation; Northern Bobwhite; Parental investment; Video monitoring

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIGHTING; NEST PREDATION; NESTING; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PREDATOR;

EID: 84890397609     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2013.12227     Document Type: Article

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