Foraging strategies of great cormorants phalacrocorax carbo carbo wintering north of the arctic circle

Bird Study

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 59-67

  Barrett, Robert T ^a   Pedersen, Torstein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BIRD; ENERGETICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR;

ARCTIC;

AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHALACROCORAX CARBO CARBO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034914250     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650109461203     Document Type: Article

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