Migration of four Sylvia warblers through northern Senegal

Ringing and Migration

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 344-351

  Ottosson, Ulf ^a,d   Rumsey, Stephen ^b   Hjort, Christian ^c  

^a Ecology Building   (Sweden)

^b The Wetland Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Sweden)

^d NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIGRATION; PASSERINE; RINGING;

SENEGAL;

AVES; DASYNOTUS; PASSERIFORMES; SYLVIA; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; SYLVIA CANTILLANS; SYLVIA COMMUNIS; SYLVIA HORTENSIS;

EID: 0035694303     PISSN: 03078698     EISSN: 21598355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03078698.2001.9674261     Document Type: Article

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