Recent status and trends of the land bird avifauna on Saipan, Mariana Islands, with emphasis on the endangered Nightingale Reed-warbler Acrocephalus luscinia

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 323-337

  Camp, Richard J ^a   Pratt, Thane K ^a   Marshall, Ann P ^b   Amidon, Fred ^b   Williams, Laura L ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^c Public Health and Hospital Emergency Preparedness Office

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

MARIANA ISLANDS; NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS; SAIPAN;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS LUSCINIA; AVES; BOIGA IRREGULARIS; CLEPTORNIS MARCHEI; MEGAPODIUS LAPEROUSE; RHIPIDURA RUFIFRONS;

EID: 74149094996     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270909008417     Document Type: Article

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