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- Tibetan Snowcock
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- Tibetan Snowcock
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Tibetan Snowcock Tetraogallus tibetanus

Philip J. K. McGowan and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published October 18, 2015

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Recommended Citation

McGowan, P. J. K. and G. M. Kirwan (2015). Tibetan Snowcock (Tetraogallus tibetanus). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Retrieved from Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: https://birdsoftheworld.org/hbw/species/tibsno1/1.0