Prey use and provisioning rates of breeding Ferruginous and Swainson's Hawks on the southern Great Plains, USA

Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 558-569

  Giovanni, Matthew D ^a,b   Boal, Clint W ^a   Whitlaw, Heather A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; BROOD SIZE; DIET; DIETARY OVERLAP; FOOD PROVISIONING; GRASS; MONITORING; PRAIRIE; RAPTOR; SYMPATRY;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

ACCIPITRINAE; BUTEO REGALIS;

EID: 38349078568     PISSN: 15594491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/06-118.1     Document Type: Article

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