Behavior of mute swans Cygnus olor wintering at a municipal beach in Gdynia, Poland;Knölsvanars Cygnus olor beteende under övervintring på en kommunal strand i Gdynia, Polen

Ornis Svecica

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 148-153

  Meissner, Włlodzimierz ^a   Ciopcińska, Katarzyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; AGGRESSION; BEACH; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; WATERFOWL; WINTER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GDYNIA; POLAND; POMORSKIE;

AVES; CYGNUS; CYGNUS OLOR;

EID: 36549073315     PISSN: 11026812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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