Vision and foraging in cormorants: More like herons than hawks?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  White, Craig R ^a   Day, Norman ^a   Butler, Patrick J ^a   Martin, Graham R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORMORANT; FORAGER; FORAGING; HAWK; HERON; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; NONHUMAN; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PREDATOR; PREY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FALCONIFORMES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACCIPITRINAE; ARDEIDAE; AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CARBO;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FALCONIFORMES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; HAWKS; HUMANS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 36949018247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000639     Document Type: Article

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