Seasonal variation in the diet of stoats in a breeding colony of Hutton’s shearwaters

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 367-373

  Cuthbert, Richard ^a   Sommer, Erica ^b   Davis, Lloyd S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Diet; Hutton s shearwaters; Mustela erminea; Puffinus huttoni; Stoats

Indexed keywords

DIET; MUSTELID; SEABIRD; SEASONAL VARIATION;

NEW ZEALAND;

DEINACRIDA; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSTELA ERMINEA; OLIGOSOMA; PUFFINUS HUTTONI;

EID: 0034480833     PISSN: 03014223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2000.9518246     Document Type: Article

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