Red-cockaded Woodpecker foraging ecology in an old-growth longleaf pine forest

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 203-217

  Engstrom, R Todd ^a   Sanders, Felicia J ^a  

^a TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

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