Routes and timing of migration of Lesser Snow Geese from the Western Canadian Arctic and Wrangel Island, Russia, 1987-1992

Occasional Paper of the Canadian Wildlife Service

Volumn , Issue 98, 1999, Pages 75-88

  Armstrong, W Terry ^a   Meeres, Katherine M ^a   Kerbes, Richard H ^a   Boyd, W Sean ^a   Silveira, Joseph G ^a   Taylor, John P ^a   Turner, Bruce ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; OVERWINTERING; PHILOPATRY; STOPOVER; WATERFOWL;

CANADA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANSER CAERULESCENS;

EID: 0032837380     PISSN: 05766370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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