Garden Bird Feeding: Insights and Prospects from a North-South Comparison of This Global Urban Phenomenon
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1 Centre for Ornithology, School of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 2 Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA, 4 Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia
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تاریخ انتشار 2017