Extremely late laying by Guillemots Uria aalge can be successful

Bird Study

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-93

  Harris, Michael P ^a   Wanless, Sarah ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING; EGG; REARING;

AVES; LARIDAE; URIA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 1542379873     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650409461338     Document Type: Article

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