An evaluation of survey methods for estimating northern bobwhite abundance in southern Texas

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1336-1343

  Rusk, Joshua P ^a,b   Hernández, Fidel ^a   Arredondo, Juan A ^a   Hernández, Froylan ^a,c   Bryant, Fred C ^a   Hewitt, David G ^a   Redeker, Eric J ^a   Brennan, Leonard A ^a   Bingham, Ralph L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^b Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ^*  (United States)

^c TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance sampling; Hellcopter survey; Line transect; Morning covey call counts; Northern bobwhite; Population estimation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; AERIAL SURVEY; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAMEBIRD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SAMPLING;

BROOKS COUNTY [TEXAS]; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

COLINUS; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 48249095177     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-071     Document Type: Article

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