The incidence of nonbreeding by adult great skuas and parasitic jaegers from Foula, Shetland

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 448-455

  Catry, Paulo ^a   Phillips, Richard A ^a,b   Hamer, Keith C ^a,b   Ratcliffe, Norman ^a,c   Furness, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age effects; Breeding frequency; Catharacta skua; Environmental fluctuation; Great Skuas; Parasitic Jaegers; Senescence; Stercorarius parasiticus

Indexed keywords

AVES; CATHARACTA SKUA; STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS;

EID: 0031926940     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369710     Document Type: Article

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