A review of four successful recovery programmes for threatened sub-tropical petrels

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-192

  Carlile, Nicholas ^a   Priddel, David ^a   Zino, Francis ^b   Natividad, Cathleen ^c   Wingate, David B ^b  

^a NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^b Haleakala National Park ^*  (Bermuda)

^c Haleakala National Park   (United States)

Author keywords

Bermuda Petrel; Conservation; Gould's Petrel; Hawaiian Petrel; Procellariiformes; Pterodroma cahow; Pterodroma leucoptera; Pterodroma madeira; Pterodroma sandwichensis; Zino's Petrel

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEST; ENDANGERED SPECIES; POPULATION SIZE; RECOVERY; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CICONIIFORMES; HAWAIIA; MAMMALIA; PROCELLARIIFORMES; PTERODROMA CAHOW; PTERODROMA LEUCOPTERA; PTERODROMA MADEIRA; PTERODROMA SANDWICHENSIS;

EID: 8644268833     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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