Diving depths of two tropical Pelecanifoemes: The Red tailed Tropicbird and the Red-footed Booby

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1004-1006

  Le Corre, Matthieu ^a  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Diving depth; Europa Island; Feeding ecology; Phaethon rubricauda; Red footed Booby; Red tailed Tropicbird; Sula sula

Indexed keywords

PELECANIFORMES; PHAETHON RUBRICAUDA; PHAETHONTIDAE; SULA SULA;

EID: 0030777806     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370157     Document Type: Article

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