Foraging effort and pre-laying strategy in breeding common eiders

Waterbirds

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 314-322

  Rigou, Yves ^a   Guillemette, Magella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capital breeders; Common Eider; foraging; incubation; laying

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; DIVING BEHAVIOR; EGG PRODUCTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INCUBATION; WATERFOWL;

AVES; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 77957377031     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.033.0307     Document Type: Article

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