Skylark optimal flight speeds for flying nowhere and somewhere

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-126

  Hedenström, Anders ^a   Alerstam, Thomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alauda arvensis; Alaudidae; Migration; Optimal flight speed; Skylark; Song flight

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT; OPTIMAL FLIGHT SPEED; SKYLARK;

ALAUDA; ALAUDA ARVENSIS; ALAUDIDAE; AVES;

EID: 0029731125     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/7.2.121     Document Type: Article

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