Notes on the breeding ecology of the extinct Stewart Island snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica iredalei)

Notornis

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 339-352

  Miskelly, Colin M ^a   de Lange, Peter J ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Breeding ecology; Coenocorypha aucklandica; Courtship feeding; Edgar Stead; Herbert Guthrie Smith; New Zealand snipe; Scolopacidae; Stewart Island snipe

Indexed keywords

AUTECOLOGY; COURTSHIP; EXTINCTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND; STEWART ISLAND;

COENOCORYPHA; COENOCORYPHA AUCKLANDICA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 33846034442     PISSN: 00294470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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