Diving ability of blue petrels and thin-billed prions

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 627-629

  Chastel, Olivier ^a   Bried, Joel ^a  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Blue Petrel; foraging behavior; Halobaena caerulea; maximum diving depths; Pachyptila belcheri; Thin billed Prion

Indexed keywords

CICONIIFORMES; HALOBAENA CAERULEA; PACHYPTILA BELCHERI;

EID: 0029802911     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369575     Document Type: Article

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