Courtship feedings, copulations and paternity in common terns, Sterna hirundo

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1125-1132

  González Solís, Jacob ^a   Sokolov, Eugene ^b,c   Becker, Peter H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; COURTSHIP; FEEDING; PASSERINE; PATERNITY;

STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 0034952284     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1711     Document Type: Article

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