Foods and foraging of prairie striped skunks during the avian nesting season

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 823-832

  Greenwood, Raymond J ^a   Sargeant, Alan B ^a   Piehl, James L ^a,b   Buhl, Deborah A ^a   Hanson, Bruce A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian nesting season; Diet; Food habits; Mephitis mephitis; Nest depredation; North Dakota; Prairie pothole region; Striped skunk

Indexed keywords

DIET; MUSTELID; NEST PREDATION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033408507     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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