Patterns of activity, flocking, and habitat use in parrots of the peruvian Amazon

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 641-653

  Gilardi, James D ^a,b   Munn, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Wildlife Preservation Trust   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Flock size; Habitat use; Nonbreeding behavior; Parrots; Roosting sociality; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

BROTOGERIS;

EID: 0031735203     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369745     Document Type: Article

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