The food of the Afrotropical nightjars

Ostrich

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 408-415

  Jackson, H D ^a  

^a NONE   (New Zealand)

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AVES; CAPRIMULGIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DERMAPTERA; DICTYOPTERA; DIPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; ISOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEUROPTERA; ODONATA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0040780057     PISSN: 00306525     EISSN: 1727947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00306525.2000.9639842     Document Type: Article

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