Habitat use and hunting behaviour of Common Buzzards Buteo buteo wintering in south-western Poland

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 147-154

  Wuczyński, Andrzej ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Birds; Buteo buteo; Buzzard; Farmland; Habitat preferences; Hunting behaviour; Perch site use; Wintering

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; OVERWINTERING; PERCHING BEHAVIOR; RAPTOR;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

AVES; BUTEO BUTEO; RAPTORES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 31344439955     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/068.040.0210     Document Type: Article

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