Diet of Common Buzzards (Buteo buteo) in southern Norway determined from prey remains and video recordings

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 97-104

  Selås, Vidar ^a   Tveiten, Reidar ^a   Aanonsen, Ole Martin ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PREY SELECTION; RAPTOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; BUTEO BUTEO; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 35949002032     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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