Distribution, relative abundance, and habitat relationships of landbirds in the Vava'u Group, Kingdom of Tonga

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 609-628

  Steadman, David W ^a   Freifeld, Holly B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Endangered species; Forest birds; Island biogeography; Tonga

Indexed keywords

AERODRAMUS SPODIOPYGIUS; APLONIS TABUENSIS; AVES; CHLORIS; CLYTORHYNCHUS VITIENSIS; COLLOCALIA; COLLOCALIA SPODIOPYGIA; COLUMBA; COLUMBINA; DUCULA PACIFICA; GALLICOLUMBA; GALLICOLUMBA STAIRII; HALCYON CHLORIS; LALAGE MACULOSA; PTILINOPUS; PTILINOPUS PEROUSII; PTILINOPUS PORPHYRACEUS; STRIGIFORMES; STURNUS VULGARIS; TYRO; TYRO ALBA; TYTO ALBA; UTA; VINI AUSTRALIS;

EID: 0031724782     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369743     Document Type: Article

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