Timing of reproduction by red-tailed hawks, northern goshawks and great horned owls in the Kluane Boreal Forest of Southwestern Yukon

• Main Author: Doyle, Frank I.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Arctic; Broad Peak; Krebs; Yukon; Accipiter gentilis; Arctic ground squirrel
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11269

In this thesis I examine the timing of breeding in 3 raptorial birds, red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis), goshawks (Accipiter gentilis) and great horned owls (Bubo virginianus). Specifically, I test Lack's 1954 theory that birds typically begin to breed such that the young bird's greates...