Are long-distance migrant passerines faithful to their stopover sites?

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 170-181

  Catry, Paulo ^a,b   Encarnação, Vitor ^c   Araújo, António ^c   Fearon, Peter ^d   Fearon, Anne ^d   Armelin, Michael ^d   Delaloye, Peter ^d  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Instituto da Conservacao da Natureza   (Portugal)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; PHILOPATRY; SITE FIDELITY; STOPOVER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; ANSER SP.; PASSERIFORMES; SCOLOPACIDAE; SYLVIIDAE;

EID: 1642349576     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2004.03112.x     Document Type: Article

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