Foraging cost of a long tail ornament: An experiment with sand Martin females

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 521-530

  Matyjasiak, P ^a   Jablonski P G ^a   Olejniczak, I ^a   Boniecki, P I ^a   Lee, S D ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING EFFICIENCY; PASSERINE;

AVES; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PASSERIFORMES; RIPARIA RIPARIA;

EID: 0344780784     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00422.x     Document Type: Article

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