The barn owl - A selective opportunist predator

Israel Journal of Zoology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 349-360

  Tores, Mali ^a   Motro, Yoav ^b   Motro, Uzi ^b   Yom Tov, Yoram ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION;

MERIONES TRISTRAMI; MICROTUS GUENTHERI; MURIDAE; MUS MUSCULUS; SCIUROGNATHI; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 33747886566     PISSN: 00212210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/7862-9E5G-RQJJ-15BE     Document Type: Article

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