Notes on Great Horned Owls nesting in the Rocky Mountains, with a description of a new subspecies

Journal of Raptor Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-28

  Dickerman, Robert W ^a   Johnson, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubo virginianus; Great Horned Owl; Morphometrics; Populations; Rocky Mountains; Subspecies; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; NESTING; NEW SPECIES; RAPTOR; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SNAKE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA (SNAKE); BUBO VIRGINIANUS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 63049116618     PISSN: 08921016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3356/JRR-06-75.1     Document Type: Article

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