A comparative analysis of the foraging behaviour of the Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax and the Alpine Chough Pyrrhocorax graculus coexisting in the Alps

Ibis

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 461-467

  Rolando, Antonio ^a   Laiolo, Paola ^a   Formica, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE CHOUGH; CHOUGH; COEXISTENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR;

ALPS; ITALY;

PYRRHOCORAX GRACULUS; PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX;

EID: 0030858965     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1997.tb04659.x     Document Type: Article

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