Why do few afro-siberian knots calidris canutus canutus now visit britain?

Bird Study

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 147-158

  Boyd, Hugh ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^b,c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; MIGRATION; OVERWINTERING;

AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS CANUTUS; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 0034932004     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650109461213     Document Type: Article

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