Metropolitan garbage dumps: possible winter migratory raptor monitoring stations in peninsular India

Winter raptor migration and movement is poorly documented for peninsular India, mainly due to the lack of geographical bottlenecks. We describe, for the first time, the use of a garbage dump in a metropolitan city as an alternative visual winter raptor monitoring station. The daily count, adult to j...

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Main Authors: S. Pande, A. Pawashe, N. Sant, A. Mahabal, N. Dahanukar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society 2010-09-01
Series:Journal of Threatened Taxa
Online Access:http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/546