Why hummingbirds have such large crops

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 405-414

  Carpenter, F Lynn ^a   Hixon, Mark A ^a   Hunt, Andrea ^a   Russell, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

crop size; energetics; Foraging behaviour; hummingbirds; intruders; meal size; optimization; territoriality

Indexed keywords

ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD; CROP SIZE; ENERGETICS; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; HUMMINGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

CALYPTE ANNA;

EID: 0026339592     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: 15738477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02214157     Document Type: Article

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