NRC 497C - Human-Carnivore Conflicts & Conservation

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Specific or general terms?

Specific terms give fewer but more precise results:
    Northern Flicker 

General terms give more hits, but a lower ratio of useful ones:
    woodpeckers

Specific terms may miss a book with just a chapter on your topic.

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Northern Flicker or Colaptes auratus

NOTE:Scientific names sometimes change!

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forest* will find forest, forests and forestry

and variant spellings (colour, grey/gray)

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