The return of the merlin to the south pennines

Bird Study

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 293-301

  Brown, Andrew F ^a   Stillman, Richard A ^b  

^a NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; NEST SITE; POPULATION GROWTH; RAPTOR;

PENNINES; UNITED KINGDOM;

CALLUNA; FALCO COLUMBARIUS; FALCONIFORMES; RAPTORES;

EID: 0031762866     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063659809461100     Document Type: Article

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