Interspecific kleptoparasitism in Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii at the Ebro Delta, northeast Spain: A behavioural response to low food availability

Ibis

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 218-221

  Oro, Daniel ^a  

^a Departament de Biologia Animal   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDOUIN'S GULL; FOOD AVAILABILITY; KLEPTOPARASITISM; TERN;

SPAIN, EBRO DELTA;

LARIDAE; LARUS AUDOUINII;

EID: 0029752218     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1996.tb04331.x     Document Type: Article

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