Effects of experimental food provisioning on reproduction in the Jackdaw Corvus monedula, a semi-colonial species

Ibis

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 377-383

  Soler, Manuel ^a   Soler, Juan José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CORVUS CORAX; CORVUS MONEDULA;

FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; JACKDAW;

SPAIN, HOYA DE GUADIX;

EID: 0029662639     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1996.tb08054.x     Document Type: Article

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