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Eames, J.C. 2007. Conserving Bengal Floricans and improving rural livelihoods at the Tonle Sap, the world's largest floodplain lake, Cambodia. The Babbler: BirdLife in Indochina: 25-27.
Evans, T.; van Zalinge, R.; Chamnan, H.; Borie, R.; Kimhout, S.; Packman, C. 2009. Bengal Floricans in the Tonle Sap floodplain: 2007/8 monitoring report.
Gray, T.N.E.; Chamnan, H.; Borey, R.; Collar, N.J.; Dolman, P.M. 2007. Habitat preferences of a globally threatened bustard provide support for community-based conservation in Cambodia. Biological Conservation 138: 341-350.
Gray, T.N.E.; Chamnan, H.; Collar, N.J.; Dolman, P.M. 2009. Sex-specific habitat use by a lekking bustard: conservation implications for the critically endangered Bengal Florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis) in an intensifying agroecosystem. The Auk 126(1): 112-122.
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Jha, R.R.S.; Thakuri, J.J.; Rahmani, A.R.; Dhakal, M.; Khongsai, N.; Pradhan, N.M.B.; Shinde, N.; Chauhan, B.K.; Talegaonkar, R.K.; Barber, I.P.; Buchanan, G.M.; Galligan, T.H.; Donald, P.F. 2018. Distribution, movements, and survival of the critically endangered Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis in India and Nepal. Journal of Ornithology Online access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-018-1552-1.
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