'Magic carpet' flight in shorebirds attacked by raptors on a migrational stopover site

Ardea

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 167-171

  Michaelsen, Tore Christian ^a,b   Byrkjedal, Ingvar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antipredator behaviour; Calidris alpina; Charadrius hiaticula; Falcons; Hawks

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; MIGRATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR; STOPOVER; WADER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

ACCIPITRINAE; AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CHARADRIUS; CHARADRIUS HIATICULA; CICONIIFORMES; FALCO; FALCO PEREGRINUS; PEREGRINUS; RAPTORES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 1542379614     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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