Common aquatic invertebrate taxa vary in susceptibility to capture by Black Stilt chicks

Notornis

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 311-318

  Sanders, Mark D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Black Stilt; Himantopus novaezelandiae; Prey capture; Upper Waitaki Basin

Indexed keywords

FORAGING EFFICIENCY; INVERTEBRATE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; WADER;

ANNELIDA; AOTEAPSYCHE COLONICA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CHIRONOMUS ZEALANDICUS; CORIXIDAE; DELEATIDIUM; EPHEMEROPTERA; GALLUS GALLUS; GASTROPODA; HETEROPTERA; HIMANTOPUS NOVAEZELANDIAE; HUDSONEMA; HUDSONEMA AMABILIS; INVERTEBRATA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA TOMENTOSA; PHYSA ACUTA; SCOLOPACIDAE; SIGARA; TRICHOPTERA; TRIPLECTIDES; XANTHOCNEMIS; XANTHOCNEMIS ZEALANDICA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 0032701604     PISSN: 00294470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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