Identification of Pintail Snipe and Swinhoe's Snipe

British Birds

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 178-198

  Leader, Paul J ^a   Carey, Geoff J ^a  

^a Asia Ecological Consultants Ltd   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE; TAIL FEATHER;

AVES; GALLINAGO; GALLINAGO MEGALA; GALLINAGO STENURA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0037398762     PISSN: 00070335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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