Morphological description of american crow, corvus brachyrhynchos, populations in Southern Québec

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-140

  Antoinette, Ludwig ^a,b   Michel, Bigras Poulin ^a   Stephane, Lair A ^a   Denise, Belanger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age and gender effect; American crow; Corvus brachyrhynchos; Intraspecific variations; Morphological analysis; Quebec; West nile virus

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; PASSERINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURVIVORSHIP; VIRAL DISEASE;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 78649572246     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v123i2.691     Document Type: Article

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