Food availability and feeding preferences of breeding fulvous whistling- ducks in Louisiana ricefields

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 137-150

  Hohman, William L ^a   Stark, Timothy M ^a   Moore, Joseph L ^a  

^a US National Biological Service   (United States)

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