Comparative nest site selection and breeding success in 2 sympatric ardeids, Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) and Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) in the Axios Delta, Macedonia, Greece

Waterbirds

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 505-517

  Kazantzidis, Savas ^a   Goutner, Vassilis ^a   Pyrovetsi, Myrto ^a   Sinis, Apostolos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Axios Delta; Black crowned Night Heron; Breeding success; Egretta garzetta; Greece; Little Egret; Nest site selection; Nycticorax nycticorax

Indexed keywords

ALNUS; ARDEIDAE; BETULACEAE; EGRETTA GARZETTA; GALLUS GALLUS; NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX;

BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON; BREEDING SUCCESS; LITTLE EGRET; NEST SITE SELECTION;

GREECE, MACEDONIA, AXIOS DELTA;

EID: 0031284440     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521601     Document Type: Review

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