Saving the kakapo: the conservation of the world's most peculiar parrot

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 281-296

  Clout, Mick N ^a   Merton, Don V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONSERVATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MATING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION;

NEW ZEALAND; STEWART ISLAND;

STRIGOPS HABROPTILUS;

EID: 0032426791     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270900001933     Document Type: Article

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