Surveying waterbirds away from major waterbodies: Implications for waterbird population estimates in Great Britain

Bird Study

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-111

  Jackson, Sarah F ^a,c   Austin, Graham E ^a   Armitage, Michael J S ^a,b  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b RPS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; SAMPLING; SURVEY; WADER; WETLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; AYTHYA; BUCEPHALA CLANGULA; GALLINULA CHLOROPUS;

EID: 33745754042     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650609461423     Document Type: Article

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