Site selection by swans wintering in Britain and Ireland; The importance of habitat and geographic location

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Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 337-352

  Rees, Eileen C ^a   Kirby, Jeff S ^a   Gilburn, Andre ^a,b  

^a WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEWICK'S SWAN; MUTE SWAN; SITE SELECTION; WHOOPER SWAN; WINTERING;

IRELAND; UK;

CYGNUS COLUMBIANUS BEWICKII; CYGNUS CYGNUS; CYGNUS OLOR;

EID: 0030617868     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1997.tb04633.x     Document Type: Article

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