Monitoring of Asian houbara bustard Chlamydotis macqueenii populations in Kazakhstan reveals dramatic decline

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Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-67

  Tourenq, Christophe ^a   Combreau, Olivier ^a   Pole, Sergey B ^b   Lawrence, Mark ^a   Ageyev, Vladimir S ^b   Karpov, Alekzey A ^b   Launay, Frédéric ^a,c,d  

^a National Avian Research Center AbuDhabi   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Masgut Aikimbayev National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

^c WWF United Arab Emirates Office   (United Arab Emirates)

^d IUCN Species Survival Commission Reintroduction Specialist Group

Author keywords

Asian houbara bustard; Chlamydotis macqueenii; Hunting; Kazakhstan; Population trends

Indexed keywords

BIRD; HUNTING; MONITORING; POACHING; POPULATION DECLINE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; KAZAKHSTAN; WEST ASIA;

CHLAMYDOTIS UNDULATA MACQUEENII;

EID: 4143138868     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605304000109     Document Type: Review

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