Nest Hole Shift in Tengmalm's Owl Aegolius funereus as Defence Against Nest Predation Involving Long-Term Memory in the Predator
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 54 (1) , 179-192
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4629
Abstract
(1) Nest predation in Tengmalm's owls using nest boxes was studied for 13 years in southeastern Norway. Forty-eight per cent of the clutches were preyed upo...This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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