Sex-biased winter distribution and timing of migration of Hermit Thrushes (Catharus guttatus) in eastern North America

Auk

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 836-847

  Stouffer, Philip C ^a,b   Dwyer, Gena M ^a  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL DATE; BODY SIZE; DOMINANCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LATITUDE; MIGRATION; OVERWINTERING; PASSERINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

(NORTHEAST); MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CATHARUS; CATHARUS GUTTATUS; CATHARUS GUTTATUS FAXONI; PASSERIFORMES; TURDIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042424867     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090114     Document Type: Article

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