Avian use of harvested crop fields in North Dakota during Spring Migration

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 491-500

  Galle, Alegra M ^a,b   Linz, George M ^c   Homan, H Jeffrey ^c   Bleier, William J ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Corn; North Dakota; Prairie Pothole Region; Small grains; Soybeans; Sunflower; Untilled land; Weeds

Indexed keywords

AGELAIUS; AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; AVES; CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS; EREMOPHILA (ANGIOSPERM); EREMOPHILA ALPESTRIS; GLYCINE MAX; HELIANTHUS; TURDUS MERULA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 73649088656     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3398/064.069.0409     Document Type: Article

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