Migratory flight strategies of Levant sparrowhawks: Time or energy minimization?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1185-1197

  Spaar, Reto ^a   Stark, Herbert ^a   Liechti, Felix ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; MIGRATION; RAPTOR;

ISRAEL;

ACCIPITER BREVIPES; AVES; FALCONIFORMES; RAPTORES;

EID: 0032211378     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0883     Document Type: Article

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