Should I brood or should I hunt: A female barn owl's dilemma

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1011-1016

  Durant, Joël M ^a,b   Gendner, Jean Paul ^a   Handrich, Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AUTOMATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; VIDEO CAMERAS; WEIGHING;

AUTOMATED WEIGHING SYSTEMS; FEMALE RAPTORS; HUNTING;

BIODIVERSITY;

BROOD REARING; FOOD PROVISIONING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; RAPTOR;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 9944222891     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z04-078     Document Type: Article

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