Nocturnal flight calls of Dickcissels and Doppler radar echoes over south Texas in spring

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 2-8

  Larkin, Ronald P ^a   Evans, William R ^b   Diehl, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Call note; Microphone; Migration; Nexrad; Passerine

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES; SPIZA; SPIZA AMERICANA;

EID: 0036002353     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1648/0273-8570-73.1.2     Document Type: Article

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