Densities and population estimates of breeding Eurasian Woodcock sco/opax rusticola in Britain in 2003

Bird Study

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-25

  Hoodless, Andrew N ^a   Lang, Deborah ^b   Aebischer, Nicholas J ^a   Fuller, Robert J ^b   Ewald, Julie A ^a  

^a GAME CONSERVANCY TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; SPATIAL VARIATION; WOODLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

SCOLOPAX RUSTICOLA;

EID: 66249094206     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650802674768     Document Type: Review

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