Relationship between bill morphology and preening behaviour in waders

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 291-296

  Barbosa, Andres ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bill morphology; Preening; Waders

Indexed keywords

AVES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 0030451630     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1996.9522919     Document Type: Article

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