The role of fruit diet within a temperate breeding bird community in southern spain

Bird Study

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 116-123

  Hampe, Arndt ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; DIET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUGIVORY; PASSERINE;

(SOUTH); SPAIN;

ERITHACUS RUBECULA; FRANGULA ALNUS; PARUS CAERULEUS; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 0034917399     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650109461209     Document Type: Article

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