The influence of survey frequency on population estimates of moorland breeding birds

Bird Study

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 381-388

  Calladine, John ^a   Garner, Graeme ^a   Wernham, Chris ^a   Thiel, Andre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b Castlebridge Business Park   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; MOORLAND; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AVES; GALLINAGO GALLINAGO; NUMENIUS ARQUATA; PLUVIALIS APRICARIA; TETRAONIDAE; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 73649136814     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650902984604     Document Type: Article

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