Mortality and morbidity associated with gunshot in raptorial birds from the province of Quebec: 1986 to 2007

Canadian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-74

  Desmarchelier, Marion ^a   Santamaria Bouvier, Ariane ^a   Fitzgérald, Guy ^a   Lair, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANADA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; INJURY; MALE; MORTALITY; RAPTOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; MALE; QUEBEC; RAPTORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

AVES; CATHARTES; HALIAEETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS; NYCTEA; PANDION; RAPTORES;

EID: 77249132690     PISSN: 00085286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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