Magnetic cues and time of season affect fuel deposition in migratory thrush nightingales (Luscinia luscinia)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1513, 2003, Pages 373-378

  Kullberg, Cecilia ^a   Lind, Johan ^a   Fransson, Thord ^a,b   Jakobsson, Sven ^a   Vallin, Adrian ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bird migration; Endogenous time programme; Flight muscle; Fuel; Magnetic cues

Indexed keywords

FUEL;

ENDOGENOUS CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SONGBIRD;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTUMN; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHY; LIPID STORAGE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SWEDEN; TIME;

AVES; LUSCINIA; LUSCINIA LUSCINIA; PASSERI;

EID: 0037460683     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2273     Document Type: Article

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