Status of Breeding and Wintering Birds
in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Alison Banks, Charles van Riper III, Steven S. Rosenstock(1)
     10 November 2002
     USGS Southwest Biological Science Center
     Colorado Plateau Field Station
     PO Box 5614
     Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011

            1 Arizona Game and Fish Dept., 2221 W. Greenway Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85023

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