Hunting flight behaviour of the Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonorae

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 342-350

  Rosén, Mikael ^a   Hedenström, Anders ^a   Badami, Alberto ^b   Spina, Fernando ^c   Åkesson, Susanne ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LIPU   (Italy)

^c Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; RAPTOR;

ISOLA DI PIETRO; ITALY; SARDINIA;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; FALCO ELEONORAE; FALCONIFORMES; RAPTORES;

EID: 0033458103     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3677006     Document Type: Article

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