The use of coastal agricultural fields in Virginia as foraging habitat by shorebirds

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 783-796

  Rottenborn, Stephen C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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