A retrospective study of mortality and morbidity factors for Common Buzzards Buteo buteo and Long-legged Buzzards Buteo rufinus in Greece: 1996-2005

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-21

  Kalpakis, Stauros ^b   Mazaris, Antonios D ^a   Mamakis, Yiannis ^b   Poulopoulos, Yiannis ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Wildlife Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RAPTOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BUTEO BUTEO; BUTEO RUFINUS; BUTEO RUFINUS RUFINUS;

EID: 67749089189     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095927090800806X     Document Type: Article

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