Host choice and success of gulls and terns kleptoparasitizing brown pelicans

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 655-665

  Shealer, David A ^a   Floyd, Ted ^b   Burger, Joanna ^c  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWN PELICAN; KLEPTOPARASITISM; LAUGHING GULL; ROSEATE TERN; SANDWICH TERN;

LARUS ATRICILLA; PELECANUS OCCIDENTALIS; STERNA DOUGALLII; STERNA SANDVICENSIS;

EID: 0031082121     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0340     Document Type: Article

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