Timing and extent of the molts of adult red-eyed vireos on their breeding and wintering grounds

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 73-82

  Mulvihill, Robert S ^a   Rimmer, Christopher C ^b  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^b Box 532   (United States)

Author keywords

breeding ground; migration timing; molt cycle; molt terminology; Red eyed Vireo; Vireo olivaceus; wintering grounds

Indexed keywords

VIREO OLIVACEUS; VIREONIDAE;

EID: 0030956268     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370225     Document Type: Article

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