Site fidelity and range size of wintering barnacle geese branta leucopsis

Bird Study

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 161-169

  Phillips, Richard A ^a   Cope, David R ^b,c   Rees, Eileen C ^a   O’connell, Mark J ^a  

^a WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Habitat shifts; Population structure; Radio telemetry; Radiotelemetry; Range characteristics; Site fidelity

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; RANGE SIZE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SITE FIDELITY; WATERFOWL;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; ANSER SP.; AVES; BRANTA; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; THORACICA;

EID: 0037931114     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650309461308     Document Type: Article

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