Diet of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) wintering on the central Texas coast

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-53

  Withers, Kim ^a   Brooks, Tammy S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; BATRACHOIDIDAE GEN. SP.; BREVOORTIA; BREVOORTIA PATRONUS; LAGUNA; MUGIL; MUGIL CEPHALUS; OPSANUS; OPSANUS BETA; PHALACROCORAX; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542437880     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2004)049<0048:DODCPA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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