Summer-autumn feeding ecology of Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypolueca and Spotted Flycatchers Muscicapa striata: The importance of frugivory in a stopover area in north-west Iberia

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 224-238

  Hernández, Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTUMN; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FRUGIVORY; LIPID; PASSERINE; POPULATION MIGRATION; STOPOVER; SUMMER;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

CORNUS; CORNUS SANGUINEA; FICEDULA; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; MUSCICAPA STRIATA; RUBUS; SAMBUCUS NIGRA;

EID: 74149093713     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270909008351     Document Type: Article

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