The first recorded reproduction of the greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus in Algeria: Behavioural and ecological aspects

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Volumn 77, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 153-159

  Samraoui, Boudjéma ^a   Ouldjaoui, Abdallah ^a   Boulkhssaïm, Mouloud ^a   Houhamdi, Moussa ^a   Saheb, Menouar ^a   Béchet, Arnaud ^b  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; PHOENICOPTERUS; PHOENICOPTERUS RUBER;

EID: 33846199268     PISSN: 00306525     EISSN: 1727947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/00306520609485526     Document Type: Article

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