Habitat use and diet of Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago breeding on moorland in northern England

Bird Study

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 182-191

  Hoodless, Andrew N ^a   Ewald, Julie A ^a   Baines, David ^a  

^a GAME CONSERVANCY TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; DIET; EARTHWORM; FOOD PREFERENCE; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; LARVA; MOORLAND; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; WADER;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHUMBERLAND; OTTERBURN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; GALLINAGO GALLINAGO; TIPULIDAE;

EID: 34447549318     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650709461474     Document Type: Article

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