Home ranges of sympatric black and turkey vultures in South Carolina

Condor

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 706-711

  DeVault, Travis L ^a   Reinhart, Bradley D ^b   Lehr Brisbin Jr , I ^b   Rhodes Jr , Olin E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial telemetry; Black Vulture; Cathartes aura; Coragyps atratus; Home range; Movement patterns; Turkey Vulture

Indexed keywords

AVES; CATHARTES; CATHARTES AURA; CORAGYPS; CORAGYPS ATRATUS; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

EID: 4043094708     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7461     Document Type: Article

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