Food and hunting of eight breeding raptors near canberra, 1990-1994

Australian Field Ornithology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 77-95

  Olsen, Jerry ^a   Fuentes, Esteban ^a   Rose, A B ^b,c   Trost, Susan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c McBryde Crescent ^*  (Australia)

^d Erindale College   (Australia)

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