Foods of American badgers in west-central Minnesota and southeastern North Dakota during the duck nesting season

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 410-414

  Sovada, Marsha A ^a   Roaldson, Jon M ^a,b   Sargeant, Alan B ^a,c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Ducks Unlimited   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; DIET; FOOD PREFERENCE; MUSTELID; WATERFOWL;

MINNESOTA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANAS; ANAS SP.; ANSER; AVES; CARNIVORA; GEOMYIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA; MURIDAE; MUSTELIDAE; REPTILIA; TAXIDEA; TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE; TAXUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032714499     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(1999)142[0410:FOABIW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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