Factors affecting the response of Seychelles Scops-owl Otus insularis to playback of conspecific calls: Consequences for monitoring and management

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 353-364

  Currie, Dave ^a   Millett, James ^a   Hill, Mike ^a   Shah, Nirmal Jivan ^a  

^a BirdLife Seychelles   (Seychelles)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MONITORING; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

OTUS; OTUS INSULARIS; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0036967492     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270902002228     Document Type: Article

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