Patterns of per-brood and per-offspring provisioning efforts in the Willow Tit Parus montanus

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-30

  Rytkönen, Seppo ^a   Koivula, Kari ^a   Orell, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARUS MONTANUS;

PROVISIONING EFFORT; WILLOW TIT;

FINLAND, OULU;

EID: 0029663953     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3676957     Document Type: Article

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