The diet of barn owl in the agricultural landscapes of central Greece

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 54, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 99-110

  Bontzorlos, Vasileios A ^a   Peris, Salvador J ^a   Vlachos, Christos G ^b   Bakaloudis, Dimitris E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Feeding habits; Rats; Thessaly; Tyto alba

Indexed keywords

DIET; FEEDING ECOLOGY; RAPTOR;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; THESSALY; WORLD;

APODEMUS; AVES; CARDUELIS; CROCIDURA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; PASSER; RATTUS; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA;

EID: 22144446855     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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