Fruit-size preferences in wild and naive eurasian blackbirds (Turdus merula) feeding on oneseed hawthorn (Crataegus Monogyna)

Auk

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 532-539

  Sobral, Mar ^a   Larrinaga, Asier R ^b   Guitin, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

bird experience; Crataegus monogyna; Eurasian Blackbird; experimental display; fruit size preference; Oneseed Hawthorn; Turdus merula

Indexed keywords

FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD SELECTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; PASSERINE;

EID: 77955066047     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2010.09079     Document Type: Article

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