Distribution and abundance of breeding and moulting Brant on Banks Island, Northwest Territories, 1992-1994

Occasional Paper of the Canadian Wildlife Service

Volumn , Issue 112, 2006, Pages 18-26

  Cotter, Richard C ^a,b   Hines, James E ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; BREEDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; NESTING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SUBSPECIES; WATERFOWL;

ALASKA; BANKS ISLAND; CANADA; EURASIA; MAGADAN [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES; WRANGEL ISLAND; YUKON-KUSKOKWIM DELTA;

AVES; BRANTA BERNICLA;

EID: 33750209659     PISSN: 05766370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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