Diet diversity of the Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) in a vole-less environment

Bird Study

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 147-155

  Rooney, Eimear ^a   Montgomery, W Ian ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOENERGETICS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; DIETARY SHIFT; FOOD LIMITATION; LAGOMORPH; NEST SITE; NICHE BREADTH; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; PREDATION; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY SELECTION; RAPTOR; RODENT; SPECIALIST;

IRELAND;

AVES; BUTEO BUTEO; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; CORVIDA; CROCIDURA; CROCIDURA RUSSULA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS; RUSSULA;

EID: 84879602775     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2013.772085     Document Type: Article

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