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An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso

  • 1. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola, cascina Vigna, I-10022 Carmagnola (Italy) g.boano@gmail.com
  • 2. Ministère de l'Environnement, de l'Économie verte et du Changement climatique, Avenue Pr. Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Koulouba, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
  • 3. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Stazzano, Villa Gardella, Via Aldo Fossati, 2, I-15060 Stazzano (Italy)
  • 4. Université de Dédougou, UFR/Sciences appliquées et Technologiques, BP 176 Dédougou (Burkina Faso) and Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie animales, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Boîte postale 7021, Ouagadougou 03 (Burkina Faso)
  • 5. Ministère des Mines et des Carrières, avenue de l'Indépendance, Koulouba, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Laboratoire de Géoressources et de l'Environnement, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Boîte postale 7021, Ouagadougou 03 (Burkina Faso)
  • 6. Institut des Sciences de l'Environnement et du Développement rural (ISEDR), BP 176 Dédougou (Burkina Faso) Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie végétales, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Boîte postale 7021, Ouagadougou 03 (Burkina Faso)
  • 7. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, I-10125 Torino (Italy)

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Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni, Pavia, Marco (2022): An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso. Zoosystema 44 (2): 27-107, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a2

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