The diet of wintering double-crested cormorants feeding at lakes in the southeastern United States

Waterbirds

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 431-437

  Glahn, James F ^a   Harrel, J Brent ^a   Vyles, Charles ^b  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Mississippi Dept Wildl Fish Parks   (United States)

Author keywords

Alabama; Diet; Double crested Cormorants; Food preferences; Mississippi Delta; Phalacrocorax auritus; Predation impact; Sport fisheries

Indexed keywords

DIET; FOOD PREFERENCE; IMPACT; SEABIRD; SPORT FISHING;

UNITED STATES;

DOROSOMA; ICTALURUS; LEPOMIS; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS;

EID: 0032299965     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521657     Document Type: Article

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