Food, feeding, and refuelling of red knots during northward migration at San Antonio Oeste, Rio Negro, Argentina

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 575-591

  González, Patricia M ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^b   Verkuil, Yvonne ^b  

^a Ministerio de Economía   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHIDONTES; BRACHIDONTES RODRIGUEZI; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS RUFA;

EID: 0030222555     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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