Nesting of four poorly-known bird species on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 124-128

  Young, Bruce E ^a,b   Zook, James R ^c  

^a Organizacion para Estud Tropicales   (Costa Rica)

^b Nature Conservancy ^*  (Costa Rica)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; NEST SITE; SITE SELECTION;

COSTA RICA;

APHANOTRICCUS CAPITALIS; LYSURUS CRASSIROSTRIS; NYCTIBIUS GRANDIS; SERPOPHAGA CINEREA;

EID: 0033021703     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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