Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: Sixth report

Ibis

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 180-186

  Sangster, George ^a,b   Collinson, J Martin ^c   Knox, Alan G ^d   Parkin, David T ^e   Svensson, Lars ^f  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; TAXONOMY;

AVES;

EID: 71949100193     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00983.x     Document Type: Article

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