Status of breeding Twite Carduelis flavirostris in the UK

Bird Study

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-63

  Langston, Rowena H W ^a   Smith, Trevor ^a   Brown, Andrew F ^b   Gregory, Richard D ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CARDUELIS FLAVIROSTRIS;

EID: 33644664820     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650609461416     Document Type: Article

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