Migration patterns of four Asian Houbara Chlamydotis macqueenii wintering in the Cholistan Desert, Punjab, Pakistan

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-10

  Tourenq, Christophe ^a   Combreau, Olivier ^a   Lawrence, Mark ^a   Launay, Frederic ^a  

^a National Avian Research Center AbuDhabi   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIGRATION; MIGRATION ROUTE; OVERWINTERING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STOPOVER;

CHLAMYDOTIS; CHLAMYDOTIS UNDULATA MACQUEENII;

EID: 2442510032     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270904000012     Document Type: Article

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