Parental care, development of foraging skills, and transition to independence in the Red-footed Booby

Condor

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-47

  Guo, Hanzhao ^a   Cao, Lei ^a   Peng, Lihua ^a   Zhao, Guixia ^a   Tang, Shan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Fledgling; Foraging; Independence; Parental care; Post fledging period; Red footed Booby; Sula sula

Indexed keywords

SULA SULA;

EID: 77949454648     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2010.090154     Document Type: Article

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