Precocious breeding by yearling Giant Canada Geese

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Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1145-1147

  Drobney, Ronald D ^a   Checkett, J Michael ^a   Coluccy, John M ^a   Graber, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANSER; ANSER SP.; BRANTA CANADENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032724077     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089697     Document Type: Article

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