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Titre :	Prothonotary Warblers (Protonotaria citrea) Break Their Beaks During Attacks on Wooden Conspecific Decoys (2016)
Auteurs :	Morgan C. Slevin, Auteur ; Douglas W. Raybuck, Auteur ; Than J. Boves, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Wilson Journal of Ornithology (The) (128(1) March 2016)
Article en page(s) :	193-197
Résumé :	ABSTRACT Researchers often use wooden conspecific decoys paired with playback of audio recordings to capture individuals of territorial avian species. Agonistic responses elicited by these decoys can be violent at times; however to our knowledge, there have been no previously recorded instances of physical attacks on a decoy causing injury. In April 2014, we witnessed two cases of male Prothonotary Warblers (Protonotaria citrea) breaking their beaks while attacking a conspecific wooden decoy used during target-netting. Upon recapture 6?8 weeks after initial breakage, beak damage had healed and both males? mass was virtually unchanged (
En ligne :	http://dx.doi.org/10.1676/1559-4491-128.1.193

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