Pellets as indicators of diet in great skuas catharacta skua

Bird Study

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 373-376

  Votier, Stephen C ^a   Bearhop, Stuart ^a   Ratcliffe, Norman ^b   Furness, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catharacta

Indexed keywords

DIET; SEABIRD;

CATHARACTA SKUA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035176345     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650109461237     Document Type: Article

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