Numbers and movements of yellow rails along the St. Lawrence River, Quebec

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 667-671

  Robert, Michel ^a   Laporte, Pierre ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Banding; Coturnicops noveboracensis; Molt migration; Radiotelemetry; Yellow Rail

Indexed keywords

COTURNICOPS NOVEBORACENSIS;

EID: 0032811029     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370197     Document Type: Article

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