Invertebrate diet of the Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis [undulata] macqueenii in Abu Dhabi from calibrated faecal analysis

Ibis

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 466-475

  Tigar, Barbara J ^a,b   Osborne, Patrick E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DIET; INVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DECLINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CHLAMYDOTIS; CHLAMYDOTIS MACQUEENII; CHLAMYDOTIS UNDULATA MACQUEENII; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; OTIDIDAE; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 0033926950     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2000.tb04443.x     Document Type: Article

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