Junk ingestion and nestling mortality in a reintroduced population of California Condors Gymnogyps californianus

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-130

  Mee, Allan ^a,b   Rideout, Bruce A ^b   Hamber, Janet A ^c   Todd, J Nick ^d   Austin, Greg ^e   Clark, Mike ^f   Wallace, Michael P ^a  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b San Diego Zoo ^*  (Ireland)

^c Department of Invertebrate Zoology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^f Los Angeles Zoo   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CAPTIVE BREEDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MORTALITY; NESTLING; RAPTOR; REINTRODUCTION;

AVES; GYMNOGYPS CALIFORNIANUS; GYPS;

EID: 34347371060     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095927090700069X     Document Type: Article

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