Survival rates of Lesser Snow Geese in the Pacific and Western Central flyways, 1953-1989

Occasional Paper of the Canadian Wildlife Service

Volumn , Issue 98, 1999, Pages 89-109

  Hines, James E ^a   Wiebe, Myra O ^a   Barry, Sam J ^a   Baranyuk, Vasily V ^a   Taylor, John P ^a   McKelvey, Richard ^a   Johnson, Stephen R ^a   Kerbes, Richard H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIGRATION; SURVIVAL; TAGGING; WATERFOWL;

CANADA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANSER CAERULESCENS;

EID: 0032885512     PISSN: 05766370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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