East African flyway and key site network of the Lesser Flamingo (Phoenicopterus minor) documented through satellite tracking

Ostrich

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 463-468

  Childress, Brooks ^a,b,c   Hughes, Baz ^a   Harper, David ^c   Van Den Bossche, Wim ^d  

^a WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d BirdLife Belgium   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; BOGORIA; PHOENICOPTERIDAE; PHOENICOPTERUS MINOR;

EID: 34547856625     PISSN: 00306525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/OSTRICH.2007.78.2.55.135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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