High proportion of non breeding individuals inan isolated red-billed chough population on an Oceanic Island (La Palma, Canary Islands)

Ardeola

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-239

  Blanco, Guillermo ^a   Pais, Jorge L ^b   Fargallo, Juan A ^a   Potti, Jaime ^c   Lemus, Jesús A ^a   Dávila, José A ^d  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b Ctra de Las Ledas 20 ^*  (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canary islands; Dispersal; Floaters; Isolation; La palma; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

Indexed keywords

AVES; PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX;

EID: 78149249613     PISSN: 05707358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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