A review of rook status, with new south Pembrokeshire data, 1986 - 1996

Field Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-56

  Little, David I ^a   Little, Annette E ^a   Levell, David ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; NEST; PASSERINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SURVEY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PEMBROKESHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; CORVUS; CORVUS FRUGILEGUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 3242809739     PISSN: 0428304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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