Piracy as an important foraging method of aplomado falcons in southern Texas and northern Mexico

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 357-359

  Brown, Jessi L ^a   Montoya, Angel B ^a   Gott, Erin J ^a   Curti, Marta ^a  

^a THE PEREGRINE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; KLEPTOPARASITISM; PREY PREFERENCE; RAPTOR;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; FALCO; FALCO FEMORALIS; MAMMALIA; RAPTORES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2342448532     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/02-134     Document Type: Article

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