Sugar preferences and 'side bias' in Cape Sugarbirds and Lesser Double-collared Sunbirds

Auk

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 156-165

  Jackson, Susan ^a,b   Nicolson, Susan W ^a   Lotz, Christopher N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING PREFERENCE; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; NECTARIVORY; SIDE BIAS; SUCROSE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

NECTARINIA CHALYBEA; PROMEROPS CAFER;

EID: 0031930201     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089120     Document Type: Article

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