Relationship of Calidris sandpiper wing shape with relative fuel load and total migration distance

Auk

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 827-835

  Burns, James G ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BIRD; ECOMORPHOLOGY; MIGRATION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

AVES; CALIDRIS; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 0041422532     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090113     Document Type: Article

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