Confronting the winds: Orientation and flight behaviour of roosting swifts, Apus apus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1471, 2001, Pages 1081-1087

  Backman J ^a   Alerstam, T ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bird flight; Bird orientation; Radar tracking; Wind drift

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION; PASSERINE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APUS APUS; ARTICLE; BIRD; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FLYING; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY; WIND;

APUS APUS;

EID: 0035932922     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1622     Document Type: Article

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