Seed food preferences of granivorous farmland passerines

Bird Study

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-53

  Perkins, Allan J ^a   Anderson, Guy ^a   Wilson, Jeremy D ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CEREAL; DATA ACQUISITION; DIETARY SHIFT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; GRANIVORY; PASSERINE; SEED;

AVENA; AVES; BRASSICA NAPUS; EMBERIZA; EMBERIZA CALANDRA; EMBERIZA CITRINELLA; EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS; HELIANTHUS; HORDEUM; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSER MONTANUS; PASSERIDAE; SECALE CEREALE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33847100164     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650709461455     Document Type: Article

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