Successful reintroduction of captive-raised yellow-shouldered Amazon parrots on Margarita Island, Venezuela

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 430-441

  Sanz, Virginia ^a   Grajal, Alejandro ^b  

^a PROVTTA   (Venezuela)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ENDANGERED BIRD; REINTRODUCTION PROGRAMME; YELLOW-SHOULDERED AMAZON;

MARGARITA ISLAND; VENEZUELA;

AMAZONA BARBADENSIS;

EID: 0031954648     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.1998.96261.x     Document Type: Article

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