Geolocators map the wintering grounds of threatened lesser kestrels in Africa

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1010-1016

  Rodríguez, Airam ^a   Negro, Juan J ^a   Bustamante, Javier ^b   Fox, James W ^a   Afanasyev, Vsevolod ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b Department of Evolutionary Ecology ^*

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Geolocator; Lesser Kestrels; Migration; Sub Saharan region; Wintering quarters

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; BREEDING SITE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MAPPING METHOD; MIGRATION ROUTE; POPULATION DENSITY; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AVES;

EID: 70349925264     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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