Standardized North American marsh bird monitoring protocol

Waterbirds

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 319-346

  Conway, Courtney J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

bitterns; call broadcast surveys; detection probability; marsh birds; rails; tape playback

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; MARSH; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION MODELING; PROBABILITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STANDARDIZATION; WATERFOWL;

NORTH AMERICA;

ARDEIDAE; AVES;

EID: 80054924271     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.034.0307     Document Type: Article

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