The rediscovery of Gurney's Pitta Pitta gurneyi in Myanmar and an estimate of its population size based on remaining forest cover

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-26

  Eames, Jonathan C ^a   Hla, Htin ^b   Leimgruber, Peter ^c   Kelly, Daniel S ^c   Aung, Sein Myo ^b   Moses, Saw ^b   Tin, U Saw Nyunt ^b  

^a BirdLife International in Indochina   (Viet Nam)

^b Wild Bird Adventure Travels and Tours   (Myanmar)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; FOREST COVER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TANINTHARYI; WORLD;

AVES; ELAEIS; PITTA; PITTA GURNEYI; PITTIDAE;

EID: 18644386514     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095927090500002X     Document Type: Article

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