Corn Bunting Miliaria calandra populations, landscape and land-use in an arable district of eastern England

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-186

  Mason, Christopher F ^a   Macdonald, Sheila M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; TERRITORY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033921633     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270900000150     Document Type: Article

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