Foraging ecology of three sympatric turacos in a montane forest in Rwanda

Auk

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 396-404

  Sun, Chin ^a   Moermond, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORYTHAEOLA CRISTATA; MUSOPHAGA JOHNSTONI; RUWENZORORNIS JOHNSTONI KIVUENSIS; TAURACO; TAURACO SCHUETTI EMINI;

EID: 0030789218     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089241     Document Type: Article

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