Avian navigation: From historical to modern concepts

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 257-272

  Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NAVIGATION; ORIENTATION;

AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 0037324003     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2054     Document Type: Review

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