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Sanitation of entire broods of dead nestlings may bias cause-specific nest failure rates |
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| Authors: | CHRIS KIRKPATRICK ,COURTNEY J. CONWAY,& MOEZ H. ALI |
| Affiliation: | University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA; USGS Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA |
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| Keywords: | Arizona ground-nesting birds inclement weather nest abandonment nest fate nestling mortality nestling starvation nest monitoring nest predation Red-faced Warbler video cameras Yellow-eyed Junco |