Avian nest predation: do birds get away with murder?

Derek Engelbrecht

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Avian nest predation: do birds get away with murder?

Derek Engelbrecht

Abstract

Over many years of field observations on the breeding biology of birds, I have observed several incidences of predation on eggs and nestlings by birds. Some of these predation events caused sufficient damage to the nest to mistakenly categorize it as damage caused by a mammalian predator.

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2011-11-28

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ENGELBRECHT, Derek. Avian nest predation: do birds get away with murder?. Biodiversity Observations, [S.l.], p. 102 - 104, nov. 2011. ISSN 2219-0341. Available at: <https://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/BO/article/view/134>. Date accessed: 23 feb. 2019.

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Vol 2 (2011)

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