Red Kites and rodenticides - A feeding experiment

British Birds

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 411-416

  Ntampakis, Dionysios ^a   Carter, Ian ^b  

^a English Nature ^*  (Greece)

^b NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PESTICIDE; RAPTOR; RODENT;

CHILTERN HILLS; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

MILVUS MILVUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 28844447860     PISSN: 00070335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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