Optimal flight behavior of soaring migrants: A case study of migrating steppe buzzards, buteo buteo vulpinus

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 288-297

  Spaar, Reto ^a   Bruderer, Bruno ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bird flight performance; Buteo buteo vulpinus; Cross country speed; Flight behavior; Gliding flight; Soaring flight; Steppe buzzard

Indexed keywords

BUTEO BUTEO; BUTEO BUTEO VULPINUS;

FLIGHT BEHAVIOUR; MIGRATION; STEPPE BUZZARD;

EID: 0030619856     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/8.3.288     Document Type: Article

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