• DOI:10.3356/0892-1016-49.2.152
Corpus ID: 86095339

Causes of Mortality and Failure at Suburban Red-Shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) Nests1

@inproceedings{Miller2015CausesOM,
  title={Causes of Mortality and Failure at Suburban Red-Shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) Nests1},
  author={Sara J. Miller and C. R. Dykstra and M. Simon and Jeffrey L. Hays and J. C. Bednarz},
  year={2015}
}

Sara J. Miller, C. R. Dykstra, +2 authors J. C. Bednarz

Published 2015

Biology

Abstract There have been no detailed studies of predator or non-predator causes of mortality and failure at nests of the Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus), and identification of such causes has been largely speculative. There is ample information about rates of nest success, defined as the fledging of ≥1 nestling from a nest, but this measure of reproductive rate is limited in its scope. Fledging success, measured by quantifying total nestlings lost or fledged is a more informative… CONTINUE READING

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