Territoriality and density of an Australian migrant, the Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher, in the New Guinean non-breeding grounds
Date
2004
Authors
Legge, Sarah
Murphy, Stephen
Igag, P.
Mack, Andreas
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Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
Abstract
We report on the non-breeding dispersion and density of Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfishers (Tanysiptera syliva sylvia), an Australo-Papuan intratropical migrant. The study was carried out at the base of the Hunstein Range, in the Sepik basin of Papua New
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Keywords: habitat loss; migratory species; population density; territoriality; Melanesia; Pacific islands; Pacific Ocean; Papua New Guinea; Sepik Basin; Alcedinidae; Aves; Sylvia; Tanysiptera
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Emu
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