The aims of galliforms release and choice of techniques

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 412-422

  Sokos, Christos K ^a,b   Birtsas, Periklis K ^a   Tsachalidis, Efstathios P ^b  

^a Hunting Federation of Macedonia Thrace   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Galliformes; Human dimensions; Put and take; Rearing; Reintroduction; Translocation

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 59449097748     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396-14.4.412     Document Type: Review

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