Foraging ecology and diet selectivity of Tree Swallows feeding nestlings

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 246-254

  Mccarty, John P ^a,b   Winkler, David W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet selectivity; Foraging; Insect sampling; Tachycineta bicolor; Tree Swallow

Indexed keywords

DIPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HIRUNDINIDAE; INSECTA; NEMATOCERA; ODONATA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032891727     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369987     Document Type: Article

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