Food resources and urban colonisation by lorikeets and parrots

Victorian Naturalist

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 70-72

  Lill, Alan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diet; Eucalypt nectar; Grass and herb seeds; Inter specific aggression; Lorikeets; Parrots; Urban colonization

Indexed keywords

AVES; POACEAE; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 70349585719     PISSN: 00425184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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