A modular tunnel-and-blind system to reduce investigator disturbance of breeding colonial waterbirds

Waterbirds

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 532-536

  Kuiken, Thijs ^a   Wobeser, Gary ^a,b   Leighton, Frederick A ^a,b   Shirley', Ian ^a   Brown, Leo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

American White Pelican; Blind; Double crested Cormorant; Gull predation; Human disturbance; Pelecanus erythrorhynchos; Phalacrocorax auritus; Tunnel

Indexed keywords

PELECANIDAE; PELECANUS ERYTHRORHYNCHOS; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS;

BREEDING COLONY; DISTURBANCE REDUCTION; HUMAN DISTURBANCE; OBSERVATION TECHNIQUE; TUNNEL-AND-BLIND SYSTEM;

EID: 0031284424     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521604     Document Type: Article

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