Urban gulls: Problems and solutions

British Birds

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 338-355

  Rock, Peter ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; POPULATION SIZE; SEABIRD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; SEVERN ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; LARUS ARGENTATUS; LARUS FUSCUS;

EID: 28844480520     PISSN: 00070335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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