What determines the time-activity budgets of Avocets (Recurvirostra avosetta)?

Journal fur Ornithologie

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-71

  Hötker, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annual cycle; Feeding ecology; Nocturnality; Tidal rhythm; Time activity budget

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BREEDING SEASON; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; TIME ALLOCATION;

AVES; CHARADRIIDAE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CHIRONOMIDAE; RECURVIROSTRA AVOSETTA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 0345517144     PISSN: 00218375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02462089     Document Type: Article

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