Effectiveness of call-broadcast surveys for monitoring marsh birds

Auk

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-35

  Conway, Courtney J ^a   Gibbs, James P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Call broadcast surveys; Detection probability; Marsh birds; Monitoring; Point count surveys; Rails; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CALLING BEHAVIOR; MARSH; MONITORING; POPULATION DECLINE;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ARDEIDAE; AVES; LIMICOLA; RALLUS LIMICOLA;

EID: 20444377746     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0026:EOCSFM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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