Survival, movements, and reproduction of released captive-reared Attwater's prairie-chicken

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1251-1258

  Lockwood, Mitchell A ^a,c   Griffin, Clifton P ^a   Morrow, Michael E ^b   Randel, Charles J ^a   Silvy, Nova J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^c TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Attwater's prairie chicken; Captive reared; Endangered species; Movements; Ranges; Reproduction; Supplemental releases; Survival; Tympanuchus cupido attwateri

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE BREEDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GAMEBIRD; MOVEMENT; REINTRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

AVES; TYMPANUCHUS; TYMPANUCHUS CUPIDO ATTWATERI;

EID: 27944456017     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069[1251:SMAROR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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