The study of bird migrations – some future perspectives: Capsule routes and destinations have been unveiled but modern techniques offer the chance to explore much more

Bird Study

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 243-253

  Bairlein, Franz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

Migration; Migration routes; Moult migration; Movements; New approaches; Optimality; Quantifying migration; Review; Witherby lecture

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; MIGRATION; RINGING; STUDY PERSPECTIVE;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0344309925     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650309461317     Document Type: Article

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