Effects of hand-rearing and radiotransmitters on flight of gray partridge

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1345-1351

  Putaala, Ahti ^a   Oksa, Juha ^b   Rintamäki, Hannu ^b   Hissa, Raimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Captivity; Climbing rate; Exercise; Flight speed; Gray partridge; Hand rearing; Muscles; Perdix perdix; Predation; Radiotagging; Restocking

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVITY; FLIGHT CAPACITY; GREY PARTRIDGE; RADIOTAGGING;

AVES; PERDIX; PERDIX PERDIX;

EID: 0031431273     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802136     Document Type: Article

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