Do Effigies Deter Fish Crows Hunting in a Black Skimmer Colony Mid-Season?

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 635-640

  Forys, Elizabeth A ^a   Hopkins, David ^b   Ingham, Paul ^b   Miller, Maggie ^a   Gluckman, Loren ^a  

^a ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Clearwater Audubon Society   (United States)

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EID: 84947938999     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/058.014.0405     Document Type: Article

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