Trios of Brown Skuas at Bird Island, South Georgia: Incidence and composition

Condor

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 694-697

  Phillips, Richard A ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Habitat saturation; Polygyny; Supranormal clutch

Indexed keywords

AVES; CATHARACTA; CATHARACTA LONNBERGI; GALLUS GALLUS; STERCORARIUS; STERCORARIUS LONNBERGI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036320666     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0694:TOBSAB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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