Characteristics of feeding-site selection by breeding Green Woodpeckers Picus viridis in a UK agricultural landscape

Bird Study

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 100-107

  Alder, Danny ^a   Marsden, Stuart ^b  

^a DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANT; BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MICROHABITAT; PASTURE; PREY AVAILABILITY; RADIOTELEMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SITE SELECTION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; BOS; FORMICIDAE; LASIUS FLAVUS; OVIS ARIES; PICIDAE; PICUS VIRIDIS;

EID: 77749337699     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650903437511     Document Type: Article

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