Strategies of passerine migration across the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert: A radar study

Ibis

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 623-634

  Biebach, Herbert ^a   Biebach, Iris ^a   Friedrich, Wolfgang ^a   Heine, Georg ^a   Partecke, Jesko ^a   Schmidl, Dieter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL ACTIVITY; MIGRATION; PASSERINE; RADAR;

AFRICA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0033771268     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2000.tb04462.x     Document Type: Article

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