Choughs Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax breeding in Wales select foraging habitat at different spatial scales

Bird Study

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 193-203

  Whitehead, Sian ^a   Johnstone, Ian ^b   Wilson, Jeremy ^b  

^a Countryside Council for Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX;

EID: 21244492815     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650509461391     Document Type: Article

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