Flyway Plan for the Svalbard population of barnacle geese: A summary

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 29-40

  Black, Jeffrey M ^a,b,c  

^a WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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