Foraging ecology of the Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea), Great Egret(Ardea alba) and Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) in response to habitat, at 2 Greek wetlands

Waterbirds

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 261-272

  Dimalexis, Anastasios ^a   Pyrovetsi, Myrto ^a   Sgardelis, Stefanos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ardea alba; Ardea cinerea; Egretta garzetta; Foraging behavior; Foraging efficiency; Foraging habitat; Greece; Lake Kerkini; Lake Prespa; Wading birds

Indexed keywords

ARDEA ALBA; ARDEA CINEREA; AVES; CASMERODIUS; EGRETTA; EGRETTA GARZETTA;

FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; HABITAT USE; WADER; WETLAND;

GREECE, MACEDONIA, LAKE KERKINI; GREECE, MACEDONIA, LAKE MIKRI PRESPA;

EID: 0031395570     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521692     Document Type: Article

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