Multispecies seabird feeding flocks in the Galapagos Islands

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 277-285

  Mills, Kyra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging behavior; Galapagos Islands; Galapagos Penguins; Multispecies feeding flocks; Seabirds; Spheniscus mendiculus

Indexed keywords

ANOUS STOLIDUS; CAMPSOHAELIUS; CAMPSOHAELIUS HARRISI; CICONIIFORMES; FREGATA MAGNIFICENS; FREGATIDAE; NANNOPTERUM; NANNOPTERUM HARRISI; PELECANIDAE; PELECANUS OCCIDENTALIS; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PUFFINUS LHERMINIERI; SPHENISCIDAE; SPHENISCUS MENDICULUS; SULA DACTYLATRA; SULA NEBOUXII; SULIDAE;

EID: 0031839943     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370268     Document Type: Article

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