A night-lighting technique for at-sea capture of Xantus' Murrelets

Waterbirds

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 525-531

  Whitworth, Darrell L ^a   Takekawa, John Y ^a   Carter, Harry R ^a   Mciver, William R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture methods; Night lighting; Seabirds; Spotlighting; Synthliboramphus hypoleucus; Xantus' Murrelet

Indexed keywords

MURRELET; SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS HYPOLEUCUS;

CAPTURE TECHNIQUE; NIGHT-LIGHTING; SEABIRD; XANTUS' MURRELET;

PACIFIC; USA, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0031284431     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521603     Document Type: Article

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