Habitat preferences of migrant and wintering northern harriers in northwestern Texas

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 448-452

  Littlefield, Carroll D ^a   Johnson, Douglas H ^b,c  

^a Bioresearch Ranch   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUS; CIRCUS CYANEUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 30844445406     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2005)050[0448:HPOMAW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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