Vigilance during preening in Coots Fulica atra

Ethology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-178

  Randler, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; GROUP SIZE; SCRAMBLE COMPETITION; VIGILANCE;

ATRA; AVES; FULICA ATRA; RALLIDAE;

EID: 13944282329     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2004.01050.x     Document Type: Article

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