Diet of reed warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus at two stopover sites in Morocco during autumn migration

Revue d'Ecologie (La Terre et la Vie)

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 491-502

  Rguibi Idrissi, Hamid ^a,b,c   Lefebvre, Gaëtan ^d   Poulin, Brigitte ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b Institut Scientifique   (Morocco)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^d STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; PREY AVAILABILITY; STOPOVER; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AVES; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; PHRAGMITES; VERTEBRATA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 3843049283     PISSN: 02497395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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