Game crops and threatened farmland songbirds in Scotland: A step towards halting population declines?

Bird Study

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 107-112

  Parish, David M B ^a   Sotherton, Nicolas W ^a  

^a GAME CONSERVANCY TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COVER CROP; POPULATION DECLINE; SONGBIRD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 3142687672     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650409461341     Document Type: Article

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