Birds build camouflaged nests

Auk

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 11-15

  Bailey, Ida E ^a   Muth, Felicity ^a,b   Morgan, Kate ^a   Meddle, Simone L ^c   Healy, Susan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Background matching; Birds; Camouflage; Choice; Nest; Zebra Finch

Indexed keywords

COLOR MORPH; NEST SITE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84919430058     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/AUK-14-77.1     Document Type: Article

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