Within-season nest persistence in large wading bird rookeries

Waterbirds

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 362-367

  Piazza, Bryan P ^a   Wright, Vernon L ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciconiiformes; Egret; Heron; Ibis; Louisiana; Monitoring; Nest persistence; Nest surveys; Nesting dynamics; Rookery; Spoonbill; Wading birds

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; NESTING; PERSISTENCE; WADER;

ATCHAFALAYA DELTA; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; EUDOCIMUS ALBUS; IBIS;

EID: 8744264166     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2004)027[0362:WNPILW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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