Another look at courtship feeding and copulation behavior in the Common Tern

Waterbirds

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 251-255

  Blanchard, Leanne ^a,b   Morris, Ralph D ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mounting behavior; Slema hirundo

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; COURTSHIP; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD;

CANADA;

STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 0032311414     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521915     Document Type: Article

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