Low‐budget ready‐to‐fly unmanned aerial vehicles: an effective tool for evaluating the nesting status of canopy‐breeding bird species

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Journal of Avian Biology

• Publication date

  2015-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/JAV.00619
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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