What type of lean ducks do hunters kill? Weakest local ones rather than migrants

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 102-107

  Guillemain, Matthieu ^a   Fritz, Hervé ^b,d   Johnson, Alan R ^c   Simon, Géraldine ^c  

^a OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

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

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Anas crecca; Body condition bias; Body mass; Migration

Indexed keywords

ANAS; ANAS CRECCA; AVES;

EID: 34249678840     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396(2007)13[102:WTOLDD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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