Super-normal clutches and female-female pairs in Gulls and Terns breeding in Poland

Waterbirds

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 624-629

  Betleja, Jacek ^a   Skórka, Piotr ^b   Zielińska, Monika ^c  

^a Upper Silesian Museum   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^c MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Clutch size; Female female pairs; Mixed female female pair; Multi female association; Super normal clutches

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLUTCH SIZE; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PAIR BOND; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

CHLIDONIAS HYBRIDUS; LARIDAE; LARUS CACHINNANS; LARUS MELANOCEPHALUS; LARUS MICHAHELLIS;

EID: 39349118375     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2007)030[0624:SCAFPI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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