Status and diurnal behaviour of the Shelduck Tadorna tadorna in the Hauts Plateaux, northeast Algeria

Wildfowl

Volumn 56, Issue , 2006, Pages 65-78

  Boulkhssaïm, Mouloud ^a   Houhamdi, Moussa ^a   Samraoui, Boudjéma ^a  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Algeria; Anatidae; Daily activity; North Africa; Salt lakes; Tadorninae; Time budget; Wintering numbers

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BREEDING SEASON; COURTSHIP; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; FEEDING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; OVERWINTERING; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME ALLOCATION; WATERFOWL;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; NORTH AFRICA; OUM EL BOUAGHI;

ANATIDAE; TADORNA TADORNA;

EID: 33846908074     PISSN: 09546324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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