Experimental manipulation of feeding in Red-tailed Tropicbird chicks

Waterbirds

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-55

  Schreiber, E A ^a  

^a Ornithological Council   (United States)

Author keywords

Chick provisioning; El Ni o; Energy limitation; Experimental manipulation; Feeding; Phaethon rubricauda; Red tailed Tropicbirds

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PHAETHON RUBRICAUDA; PHAETHONTIDAE;

EID: 0003063649     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521806     Document Type: Article

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