Natural history and breeding behavior of the olive (Psarocolius yuracares) and yellow-billed (P. angustifrons alfredi) oropendolas in Chapare Province, Bolivia

Ornitologia Neotropical

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 251-261

  Fraga, Rosendo M ^a   Kreft, Stefan ^b  

^a Matteri y España ^*  (Argentina)

^b University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Breeding ecology; Chapare; Colonial nesting; Foraging; Olive oropendola; P. Angustifrons alfredi; Psarocolius yuracares; Russetbacked oropendola; Taxonomy; Yellow billed oropendola

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250701665     PISSN: 10754377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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