Egg composition in Northern Flickers

Condor

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 977-980

  Wiebe, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Egg composition; Picidae; Woodpecker

Indexed keywords

AVES; COLAPTES AURATUS; PICIDAE;

EID: 33845229283     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2006)108[977:ECINF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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