Blood parasites of migrating Willow Warblers (Phylloscopus trochilus) at a stopover site

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 984-988

  Rintamäki, Pekka T ^a   Ojanen, Mikko ^b   Pakkala, Heikki ^c   Tynjälä, Matti ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; HEMOPARASITE;

FINLAND;

HAEMOPROTEUS BELOPOLSKYI; LEUCOCYTOZOON PHYLLOSCOPUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS;

EID: 0031791103     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjz-76-5-984     Document Type: Article

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