Nestling food of the congeneric and sympatric Rusty-margined and Social flycatchers

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-165

  Dyrcz, Andrzej ^a   Flinks, Heiner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Food; Myozetetes cayanensis; Myozetetes similis; Nestling; Sympatry

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ARANEAE; BASOMMATOPHORA; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MICONIA; MYOZETETES CAYANENSIS; MYOZETETES SIMILIS; NOTONECTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038054648     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1648/0273-8570-74.2.157     Document Type: Article

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