The use of agricultural, open and forest habitats by juvenile Mauritius Kestrels Falco punctatus

Ibis

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-76

  Burgess, Malcolm D ^a   Black, Richard A ^b   Nicoll, Malcolm A C ^a   Jones, Carl G ^c   Norris, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Habitat selection; Hunting technique; Radio telemetry; Raptor; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOREST; FOREST EDGE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; JUVENILE; OPEN SPACE; RADIOTELEMETRY; RAPTOR;

FALCO PUNCTATUS; FALCONIDAE; RAPTORES;

EID: 58149098336     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00888.x     Document Type: Article

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