Bird-window collisions in the summer breeding season
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Bird-window collisions in the summer breeding season
Birds that reside in urban settings face numerous human-related threats to survival, including mortality from bird-window collisions (BWCs). Our current understanding of this issue has largely been driven by data collected during spring and fall migration, and patterns of collision mortality during the summer breeding season remain relatively unexplored. We assessed BWCs during four breeding se...
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عنوان ژورنال: PeerJ
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2167-8359
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.460