Evening flights of female Northern Pintails from a major roost site

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 810-819

  Cox Jr , Robert R ^a,b   Afton, Alan D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Biological Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Anas acuta; evening flights; flight energetics; Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge; Louisiana; Northern Pintail; refuging theory

Indexed keywords

ANAS; ANAS ACUTA; ANSER; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 12644263411     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369861     Document Type: Article

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