Status and distribution of breeding Common Scoters Melanitta nigra nigra in Britain and Ireland in 1995

Bird Study

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 146-156

  Underhill, Mark C ^a   Gittings, Tom ^b   Callaghan, Des A ^a   Hughes, Baz ^a   Kirby, Jeff S ^a   Delany, Simon ^b  

^a WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRDWATCH IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Melanitta

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION STATUS; POPULATION TREND; WILDFOWL;

IRELAND; UK;

MELANITTA NIGRA;

EID: 0031870811     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063659809461087     Document Type: Article

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