Summer pre-breeding movements of eleonora's falcon falco eleonorae revealed by satellite telemetry: Implications for conservation

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 487-494

  Mellone, Ugo ^a   López López, Pascual ^a   Limiñana, Rubén ^b   Urios, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIGRATORY SPECIES; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUMMER; TELEMETRY; TRACKING;

SPAIN;

EID: 84876568050     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270913000051     Document Type: Article

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