Is foot squeezing pressure by two raptor species sufficient to subdue their prey?

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 757-763

  Csermely, Davide ^a   Gaibani, Giorgia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buteo buteo; Common Buzzard; Eurasian Kestrel; Falco tinnunculus; Predation; Prey killing; Raptors

Indexed keywords

BUTEO BUTEO; FALCO TINNUNCULUS;

EID: 0031767684     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369762     Document Type: Article

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