Migration chronology and distribution of redheads on the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 40-51

  Custer, Christine M ^b   Custer, Thomas W ^b   Zwank, Philip J ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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