Escape flight in moulting Tree Sparrows (Passer montanus)

Functional Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 29-35

  Lind, J ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Life history; Moult; Predation risk; Predator evasion

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY;

EID: 0035122032     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2001.00497.x     Document Type: Article

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