Reliability of Singing Bird Surveys: Changes in Observer Efficiency with Avian Density

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• Publication year

  1984

• Venue

  The Auk

• Publication date

  1984-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1093/AUK/101.2.307
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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