Time constraint on food choice in provisioning blue tits, Parus caeruleus: The relationship between feeding rate and prey size

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 517-526

  Grieco, Fabrizio ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROVISIONING; FOOD SELECTION; PASSERINE; PREY SIZE;

PARUS; PARUS CAERULEUS;

EID: 0036417234     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3073     Document Type: Article

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