Build-up of red blood cells in refuelling Bar-tailed Godwits in relation to individual migratory quality

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 363-370

  Piersma, Theunis ^a   Everaarts, Jan M ^a   Jukema, Joop ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

body mass; heart; hematocrit; hemoglobin; individual quality; Limosa lapponica; Migration; shorebirds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029786579     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369154     Document Type: Article

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