Autumn and winter distributions of Lesser Snow Geese from the Western Canadian Arctic and Wrangel Island, Russia, 1953-1992

Occasional Paper of the Canadian Wildlife Service

Volumn , Issue 98, 1999, Pages 39-73

  Hines, James E ^a   Baranyuk, Vasily V ^a   Turner, Bruce ^a   Boyd, W Sean ^a   Silveira, Joseph G ^a   Taylor, John P ^a   Barry, Sam J ^a   Meeres, Katherine M ^a   Kerbes, Richard H ^a   Armstrong, W Terry ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MIGRATION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOPOVER; WATERFOWL;

ARCTIC; CANADA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WRANGEL ISLAND;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; ANSER CAERULESCENS; ANSER CAERULESCENS CAERULESCENS; ANSER SP.; ANSERIFORMES; CHEN;

EID: 0032852116     PISSN: 05766370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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