Behaviour and energetics of Svalbard barnacle geese during their autumn migration

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 165-174

  Butler, Patrick J ^a   Woakes, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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