Clutch size and egg size in the breeding strategy of montagu’s harrier circus pygargus in a mediterranean area

Bird Study

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 245-248

  Corbacho, Casimiro ^a   Sánchez, Juan Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUS PYGARGUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034235894     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650009461182     Document Type: Article

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