Nest spacing and breeding performance in Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus in northeast Greece

Bird Study

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 330-338

  Bakaloudis, Dimitris E ^a   Vlachos, Christos G ^b   Holloway, Graham J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NEST SITE; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STOCHASTICITY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

CICONIIFORMES; CIRCAETUS GALLICUS;

EID: 27244460946     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650509461407     Document Type: Article

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