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Abundance of raptors and habitat preferences of the common buzzard Buteo buteo and the common kestrel Falco tinnunculus during the non-breeding season in an agricultural landscape (Western Slovakia) Cover

Abundance of raptors and habitat preferences of the common buzzard Buteo buteo and the common kestrel Falco tinnunculus during the non-breeding season in an agricultural landscape (Western Slovakia)

Raptor Journal
Volume 7 (2013): Issue 2013 (January 2013)
By: Vladimír Nemček  
Open Access
|Mar 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/srj-2013-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2644-5247 | Journal ISSN: 1337-3463
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Language: English
Page range: 37 - 42
Published on: Mar 26, 2014
Published by: Raptor Protection of Slovakia
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
landscape,
agricultural land
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Zoology

© 2014 Vladimír Nemček, published by Raptor Protection of Slovakia
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

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