Difficulties of counting breeding Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria

Bird Study

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 339-342

  Pearce Higgins, James W ^a,b   Yalden, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BIRD; METHODOLOGY; SURVEYING;

PLUVIALIS; PLUVIALIS APRICARIA;

EID: 27244439828     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650509461408     Document Type: Article

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