Broad wintering range and intercontinental migratory divide within a core population of the near-threatened pallid harrier

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 401-409

  Terraube, J ^a,b   Mougeot, F ^c   Cornulier, T ^d   Verma, A ^e   Gavrilov, A ^f   Arroyo, B ^b  

^a Natural Research Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e GURU GHASIDAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f Institute of Zoology Almaty Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Circus macrourus; Conservation; Kazakhstan; Migration strategy; Migratory divide; Satellite telemetry; Wintering areas

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; COEXISTENCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MIGRATION ROUTE; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; RADIOTELEMETRY; RANGE EXPANSION; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAGGING;

BURKINA FASO; CASPIAN SEA; ETHIOPIA; INDIA; KAZAKHSTAN; MIDDLE EAST; NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; SUDAN;

AVES; CIRCUS; CIRCUS MACROURUS;

EID: 83855164284     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00830.x     Document Type: Article

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