Adoption of Black-winged Stilt chicks by Common Terns

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 409-412

  Paz, Uzi ^a,b   Eshbol, Yosi ^b  

^a BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SEABIRD; WADER;

GALLUS GALLUS; HIMANTOPUS; HIMANTOPUS HIMANTOPUS; HIRUNDO; LARIDAE; SCOLOPACIDAE; STERNA; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 0036765713     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/0043-5643(2002)114[0409:AOBWSC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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