Checklist of the birds of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire, South Caribbean

Ardea

Volumn 97, Issue 2 SPECIAL ISSUE, 2009, Pages 137-268

  Prins, T G ^a   Reuter, J H ^a   Debrot, A O ^b   Wattel, J ^a   Nijman, V ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CARMABI FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Conservation; Systematics; Taxonomy; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; BREEDING POPULATION; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MIGRATORY POPULATION; NEST SITE; ORNITHOLOGY; PHENOLOGY; SEABIRD; SPECIES INVENTORY; STOPOVER; TAXONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ARUBA; BONAIRE; CURACAO; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES;

AMAZONA BARBADENSIS; ARDEA; AVES; CAPRA HIRCUS; CHARADRIUS MELODUS; CONTOPUS COOPERI; DENDROICA CERULEA; FULICA CARIBAEA; ICTERUS NIGROGULARIS; LARIDAE; PHOENICOPTERUS; PHOENICOPTERUS RUBER; PSITTACIDAE; RAPTORES; STERNA ANTILLARUM; SULIDAE; VERMIVORA CHRYSOPTERA;

EID: 73449097115     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5253/078.097.0201     Document Type: Article

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