Homing success of migrant versus nonmigrant dark-eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis)

Auk

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 608-617

  Keiser, Jeffrey T ^a   Ziegenfus, Charles W S ^b   Cristol, Daniel A ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark eyed Junco; Homing; Junco hyemalis; Migration; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

HOMING BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MEMORY; MIGRATORY POPULATION; RESIDENT POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; JUNCO; JUNCO HYEMALIS; JUNCO HYEMALIS HYEMALIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 18744388625     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0608:HSOMVN]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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