More eggs the better: Egg formation in captive Barn Owls (Tyto alba)

Auk

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 103-109

  Durant, Joël M ^a,b   Massemin, Sylvie ^a   Handrich, Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG DEVELOPMENT; RAPTOR;

RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1242288124     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/auk/121.1.103     Document Type: Article

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