What happens to translocated game birds that 'disappear'?

Animal Conservation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 418-425

  Dickens, M J ^a   Delehanty, D J ^b   Reed, J M ^a   Romero, L M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chukar; Homing; Movement; Reintroduction; Translocation

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAMEBIRD; HOMING BEHAVIOR; REINTRODUCTION; SITE FIDELITY; SUSTAINABILITY; TRANSLOCATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ALECTORIS; ALECTORIS CHUKAR; ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 70349585433     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00265.x     Document Type: Article

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