Rice fields support a large portion of herons breeding in the Mediterranean Region

Waterbirds

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL.1, 1996, Pages 129-134

  Fasola, Mauro ^a   Canova, Luca ^a   Saino, Nicola ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Biologia Animale   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Biologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conservation; Diet; Feeding success; Foraging habitat; Herons; Prey availability; Rice fields

Indexed keywords

ARDEIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0001609431     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521956     Document Type: Article

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