Spring migratory routes of eight trans-Saharan passerines through the central and western Mediterranean; results from a network of insular and coastal ringing sites

Ibis

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 591-598

  Pilastro, Andrea ^a,b   Macchio, Stefano ^a   Massi, Alberto ^a   Montemaggiori, Alessandro ^a   Spina, Fernando ^a  

^a Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; RINGING;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; HIPPOLAIS ICTERINA; HIPPOLAIS POLYGLOTTA; LANIUS COLLURIO; LANIUS SENATOR; PHYLLOSCOPUS BONELLI; PHYLLOSCOPUS SIBILATRIX;

EID: 0031723822     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1998.tb04704.x     Document Type: Article

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