Can kittiwakes smell? Experimental evidence in a larid species

Ibis

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 584-587

  Leclaire, Sarah ^a,b   Mulard, Hervé ^a,b   Wagner, Richard H ^b   Hatch, Scott A ^c   Danchin, Étienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Black legged Kittiwake; Odour; Olfaction; Rissa tridactyla

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ODOR; OLFACTION; SEABIRD;

AVES; LARIDAE; LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 67849109688     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00935.x     Document Type: Article

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