Avian community composition and patterns of bird distribution within birch-heath mosaics in north-east Scotland

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-37

  Gillings, Simon ^a   Fuller, Robert J ^a   Henderson, Andrew C B ^b  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b Farthings   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRCH SCRUB; BIRD COMMUNITY; CHAFFINCH; GREAT TIT; LONG-TAILED TIT; MEADOW PIPIT; SCRUB HABITAT; TREE PIPIT; WILLOW WARBLER; WREN;

SCOTLAND;

AEGITHALOS CAUDATUS; ANTHUS PRATENSIS; ANTHUS TRIVIALIS; FRINGILLA COELEBS; PARUS MAJOR; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0031903688     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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