Practice and attitudes of suburban and rural dwellers to feeding wild birds in Southeast Queensland, Australia

Ornithological Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-19

  Ishigame, Go ^a   Baxter, Greg S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Bird feeding; Geographic trend; Rural feeders; Urban feeders; Wildlife feeding

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957865069     PISSN: 13470558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2326/1347-0558(2007)6[11:PAAOSA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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