Female aggression in the European starling during the breeding season

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-23

  Sandell, Maria I ^a,b   Smith, Henrik G ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Ecology Building ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; INTRASPECIFIC AGGRESSION; STARLING;

STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0030620663     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0274     Document Type: Article

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