Nest-site selection, egg pigmentation and clutch predation in the ground-nesting Namaqua Sandgrouse Pterocles namaqua

Ibis

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 123-131

  Lloyd, Penn ^a   Plagányi, Éva ^a   Lepage, Denis ^a   Little, Robin M ^a   Crowe, Timothy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; EGG; NEST PREDATION; NEST SITE; SITE SELECTION;

PTEROCLES NAMAQUA;

EID: 0343048345     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2000.tb07692.x     Document Type: Article

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