Northern Lesser Black-backed Gulls: What do they eat?

Waterbirds

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 534-540

  Bustnes, Jan Ove ^a   Barrett, Robert T ^b   Helberg, Morten ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

feeding ecology; Gadidae; herring; Larus fuscus fuscus; reproduction

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BREEDING SEASON; ECHINODERM; EGG; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GADOID; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD;

NORWAY;

AMMODYTES; BRACHYURA; CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECHINOIDEA; ENTELURUS AEQUOREUS; GADIDAE; GADIFORMES; LARUS FUSCUS FUSCUS; MYTILUS EDULIS; POLLACHIUS VIRENS;

EID: 78651438955     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.033.0413     Document Type: Article

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