Winter home range and habitat use of female Northern Saw-whet Owls on Assateague Island, Maryland

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 309-313

  Churchill, John B ^a   Wood, Petra Bohall ^a   Brinker, David F ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; RAPTOR; WINTER;

ASSATEAGUE ISLAND; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

AEGOLIUS; AEGOLIUS ACADICUS; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0036765474     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/0043-5643(2002)114[0309:WHRAHU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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