What landscape elements are correlated with the distribution of wintering Grey-faced Buzzards Butastur indicus in the Sakishima Islands, southwestern Japan?

Ornithological Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 157-163

  Wu, Yinyin ^a   Fujita, Go ^a   Higuchi, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Butastur indicus; Distribution; Islands; Wintering sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147182537     PISSN: 13470558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2326/1347-0558(2006)5[157:WLEACW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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