Surveys of the Satyr Tragopan Tragopan satyra in the Singhalila National Park, Darjeeling, India using spring call counts

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 361-371

  Khaling, Sarala ^a   Kaul, Rahul ^b   Saha, Goutam Kumar ^a  

^a DARJEELING GOVERNMENT COLLEGE   (India)

^b Sub regional Office for South Asia   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BIRD; CALLING BEHAVIOR; SURVEYING;

INDIA; SINGHALILA NATIONAL PARK; WEST BENGAL;

AVES; TRAGOPAN SATYRA;

EID: 0032452794     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270900002124     Document Type: Article

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