Strict mate fidelity and reduced breeding dispersal of widowed Red-billed Choughs Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

Bird Study

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 371-377

  Banda, Eva ^a   Blanco, Guillermo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX;

EID: 84905905789     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2014.927819     Document Type: Article

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