Environmental effects on the fall migration of eiders at Barrow, Alaska

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-24

  Day, Robert H ^a   Rose, John R ^a   Prichard, Alexander K ^a   Blaha, Richard J ^a   Cooper, Brian A ^a  

^a ABR Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Eiders; Environmental effects; Migration; Population monitoring; Radar ornithology; Somateria spp.

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MIGRATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; RADAR; WATERFOWL;

ALASKA; BARROW; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; SOMATERIA; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS;

EID: 22244459169     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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