Time-budgets of Common Murres at a declining and increasing colony in Alaska

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 149-152

  Zador, Stephani G ^a   Piatt, John F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colony attendance; Common Murre; Parental attendance; Time budgets; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS; LARIDAE; URIA AALGE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032975634     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370455     Document Type: Article

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