Wild-reared aplomado falcons survive and recruit at higher rates than hacked falcons in a common environment

Biological Conservation

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 453-458

  Brown, Jessi L ^a   Collopy, Michael W ^b   Gott, Erin J ^a   Juergens, Paul W ^a   Montoya, Angel B ^a   Hunt, W Grainger ^a  

^a THE PEREGRINE FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Captive bred; Multistate model; Program MARK; Raptor; Recruitment; Reintroduction; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIRD; CAPTIVE BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSAL; FITNESS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; REINTRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

NORTH AMERICA; RIO GRANDE VALLEY; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

FALCO FEMORALIS; FALCO FEMORALIS SEPTENTRIONALIS; FALCONIDAE;

EID: 33744989688     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.02.021     Document Type: Article

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