Genetic studies of Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis): genetic tagging and individual identification from feathers, and determining phylogeography, gene flow and population history for Goshawks in North America

Shelley Bayard de Volo

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Genetic studies of Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis): genetic tagging and individual identification from feathers, and determining phylogeography, gene flow and population history for Goshawks in North America

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Shelley Bayard de Volo

Year:

2008

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State University. Thesis. 133 p.

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Abstract

The Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) is a large, highly mobile, mostly nonmigratory and widespread forest raptor. It ranges across the Boreal forests from Alaska to Newfoundland, and south into forests of the Great Lakes, and montane regions of the Appalachian, Cascade, Sierra Nevada, Rocky Mountain, and Sierra Madre Occidental.

Keywords

Northern Goshawk, Accipiter gentilis, raptor

Citation

Bayard de Volo, Shelley. 2008. Genetic studies of Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis): genetic tagging and individual identification from feathers, and determining phylogeography, gene flow and population history for Goshawks in North America. Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State University. Thesis. 133 p.