Stick nests on a building and transmission towers used for nesting by large falcons in Utah

Great Basin Naturalist

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 263-267

  Bunnell, Stephen T ^a   White, Clayton M ^a   Paul, Don ^b   Bunnell, S Dwight ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH DIVISION OF WILDLIFE RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric transmission towers; Falco maxicanus; Falco peregrinus; Peregrine Falcon nesting; Prairie Falcon nesting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030738820     PISSN: 00173614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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