Decreases in migrating sharp-shinned hawks (Accipiter Striatus) at traditional raptor-migration watch sites in Eastern North America

Auk

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 32-40

  Viverette, Catherine B ^a   Struve, Susanna ^a   Goodrich, Laurie J ^a   Bildstein, Keith L ^a  

^a Hawk Mountain Sanctuary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIPITER STRIATUS; ACCIPITRINAE; AVES; RAPTORES;

EID: 0000303152     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4088933     Document Type: Article

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