Causes of morbidity in wild raptor populations admitted at a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Spain from 1995-2007: A long term retrospective study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Molina López, Rafael A ^a,b   Casal, Jordi ^b,c   Darwich, Laila ^b,c  

^a Centre de Fauna Salvatge de Torreferrussa   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE DE RECERCA EN SANITAT ANIMAL CRESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIPITER GENTILLIS; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; BUBO BUBO; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCUTION; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; FALCONIFORMES; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OWL; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAPTOR; REHABILITATION CENTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAIN; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TYTO ALBA; WILDLIFE; WINTER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRD DISEASES; FALCONIFORMES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, ANIMAL; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RAPTORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SPAIN; STRIGIFORMES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIPITER; AVES; BUBO BUBO; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; FALCONIFORMES; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA;

EID: 80053106706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024603     Document Type: Article

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