Breeding performance and timing of breeding of inland and coastal breeding Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo in England and Wales

Bird Study

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 10-17

  Newson, Stuart E ^a   Hughes, Baz ^b   Hearn, Richard ^b   Bregnballe, Thomas ^c  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c K   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; LAYING DATE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

PHALACROCORAX CARBO;

EID: 14844286509     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650509461369     Document Type: Article

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