Diet of adult and nestling scarlet macaws in southwest Belize, Central America

Biotropica

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 280-283

  Renton, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ara macao; Chiquibul National Park; Feeding ecology; Floodplain habitat; Niche breadth; Nutrition; Psittacidae; Seed predation; Subtropical wet forest

Indexed keywords

DIET; FEEDING ECOLOGY; GRANIVORY; NESTLING; SEED PREDATION;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; CENTRAL AMERICA;

ARA MACAO; CNIDOSCOLUS; PSITTACIDAE; SCHIZOLOBIUM PARAHYBA;

EID: 33644940884     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00123.x     Document Type: Article

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