Linking breeding and wintering grounds of neotropical migrant songbirds using stable hydrogen isotopic analysis of feathers

Oecologia

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 142-148

  Hobson, Keith A ^a   Wassenaar, Leonard I ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deuterium; Diet; Neotropical migrant; Songbird feathers; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BREEDING GROUND; DEUTERIUM; FEATHER; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; SONGBIRD; WINTERING GROUND;

NORTH AMERICA;

CATHARUS USTULATUS; DUMETELLA CAROLINENSIS; EMPIDONAX MINIMUS; HELMITHEROS VERMIVORUS; HYLOCICHLA MUSTELINA; SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS; SETOPHAGA RUTICILLA; VERMIVORA PEREGRINUS; WILSONIA CITRINA;

EID: 0030926907     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050068     Document Type: Article

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