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A Case Study on the Phylogeny and Conservation of Saker Falcon Cover

A Case Study on the Phylogeny and Conservation of Saker Falcon

Ornis Hungarica
Volume 22 (2014): Issue 1 (June 2014)
By: Krisztián Pomichal,  Balázs Vági and  Tibor Csörgő  
Open Access
|Dec 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/orhu-2014-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2061-9588 | Journal ISSN: 1215-1610
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Language: English
Page range: 1 - 14
Published on: Dec 4, 2014
Published by: MME/BirdLife Hungary
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Keywords:
Falco cherrug,
phylogenetics,
taxonomy,
hybridization,
conservation
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