The Orange-breasted Falcon Falco deiroleucus in Mesoamerica: A vulnerable, disjunct population?

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-40

  Baker, Aaron J ^a   Whitacre, David F ^a   Aguirre Barrera, Oscar A ^b   White, Clayton M ^c  

^a THE PEREGRINE FUND   (United States)

^b Fondo Peregrino   (Guatemala)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; DISJUNCT DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAPTOR;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

FALCO DEIROLEUCUS;

EID: 0034038777     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270900000034     Document Type: Article

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