Foraging flights of breeding thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia) as revealed by bird-borne direction recorders

Auk

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-66

  Benvenuti, Silvano ^a   Bonadonna, Francesco ^a   DalL'Antonia, Luigi ^b   Gudmundsson, Gudmundur A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^c ICELANDIC INSTITUTE OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT DIRECTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; THICK-BILLED MURRES;

URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 0031932025     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089111     Document Type: Article

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