Winter philopatry in migratory waterfowl

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 20-34

  Robertson, Gregory J ^a,b   Cooke, Fred ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIGRATORY SPECIES; PHILOPATRY; WATERFOWL; WINTER;

EID: 0033042936     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089450     Document Type: Article

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