Biotelemetry of New World thrushes during migration: Physiology, energetics and orientation in the wild

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 295-304

  Bowlin, Melissa S ^a   Cochran, William W ^b,c   Wikelski, Martin C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHARUS THRUSHES; CATHARUS USTULATUS; PASSERI; TURDIDAE;

EID: 19944367292     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/45.2.295     Document Type: Conference Paper

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