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Record #195822:
Illegal immigrants in the Falkland Islands: the story of the house sparrows / Cody Anderson.
Title: | Illegal immigrants in the Falkland Islands: the story of the house sparrows / Cody Anderson. |
Author(s): | Anderson, Cody. |
Date: | 2008. |
In: | Falkland Islands Journal. (2008.), Vol. 9(2) (2008) |
Abstract: | Account of how house sparrow Passer domesticus arrived in Falkland Islands in 1919 in rigging of steamers from Uruguay, and early attempts to eradicate them led by Assistant Government Naturalist Arthur Bennett. Includes discussion of sparrows' adaptation to weather and lack of trees, and ways in which changes in Falkland Islands help sparrows to survive there while their populations in other parts of World are in decline. |
Notes: | Falkland Islands Journal. Vol. 9(2) :139-146 (2008). |
Keywords: | 598.2 -- Birds. 598.825 -- Ploceidae: Passer domesticus. 574 -- Ecology. 574.91 -- Species introduction. 574.24 -- Habitat conditions, effect of alterations. 92 -- Biographies: Bennett, Arthur George. 93"192" -- 1920-1929. H5 -- Zoology: birds. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (*721) -- Falkland Islands. |
SPRI record no.: | 195822 |
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