Trends in populations of red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris, a Bering Sea endemic

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 167-180

  Byrd, G Vernon ^a   Williams, Jeffrey C ^a   Artukhin, Yuri B ^b   Vyatkin, Peter S ^b  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b Kamchatka Inst Ecol and Nat Mgmt   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; LARUS; RISSA BREVIROSTRIS;

ENDEMIC BIRD; POPULATION SIZE; RED-LEGGED KITTIWAKE;

BERING SEA, BULDIR SEA; BERING SEA, COMMANDER ISLANDS; USA, ALASKA, BOGOSLOF ISLAND; USA, ALASKA, PRIBILOF ISLANDS;

EID: 0031461366     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270900001489     Document Type: Article

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