Integrative taxonomy reveals Europe's rarest songbird species, the Gran Canaria blue chaffinch Fringilla polatzeki

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 159-166

  Sangster, George ^a,b   Rodríguez Godoy, Felipe ^c   Roselaar, C S ^d   Robb, Magnus S ^e   Luksenburg, Jolanda A ^f  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Biodiversity Service   (Spain)

^d NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e George Mason Univ ^*  (Portugal)

^f GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; MORPHOMETRY; PLUMAGE; SONG; SONGBIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

CANARY ISLANDS; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

AVES; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA TEYDEA; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84961254866     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jav.00825     Document Type: Article

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