Food of the Willlow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus nestlings: Differences related to the age of nestlings and sex of feeding parents

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-51

  Krupa, Małgorzata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Age related differences; Food composition; Nestling diet; Parental provisioning; Phylloscopus trochilus; Willow Warbler

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; DIET; FOOD PROVISIONING; NESTLING; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SONGBIRD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE KARAS; POLAND; WARMINSKO-MAZURSKIE;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEMIPTERA; MOLLUSCA; PASSERI; PHYLLOSCOPUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS; SALIX; SALIX VIMINALIS; TRICHOPTERA; TROCHILUS;

EID: 3242755771     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/068.039.0110     Document Type: Article

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