Where and when to feed: Sex and experience affect access to food in wintering snow buntings

Behaviour

Volumn 134, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 143-160

  Smith, Richard D ^a,b   Metcalfe, Neil B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031538160     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853997x00322     Document Type: Article

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