Winter surveys of forest-dwelling neotropical migrant and resident birds in three regions of Cuba

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 745-768

  Wallace, George E ^a,c   Alonso, Hiram González ^b,d   Mcnicholl, Martin K ^a,c   Batista, Daysi Rodríguez ^b   Prieto, Ramona Oviedo ^b   Sosa, Alejandro Llanes ^b   Oria, Bárbara Sánchez ^b   Wallace, Elizabeth A H ^a,c  

^a Long Point Bird Observatory   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y SISTEMÁTICA   (Cuba)

^c Museo Nacional de Historia Natural ^*  (Canada)

^d Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cuba   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Cuba; habitat use; mist nets; Neotropical migrant birds; point counts; resident birds

Indexed keywords

AVES; COCO;

EID: 0030472073     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369856     Document Type: Article

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