Food of Double-crested Cormorants, Phalacrocorax auritus, in the Gulf and Estuary of the St. Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 635-643

  Rail, Jean François ^a   Chapdelaine, Gilles ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; SEABIRD;

CANADA;

AMMODYTES; MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS;

EID: 0031669323     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjz-76-4-635     Document Type: Article

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