Facultative rest-phase hypothermia in free-ranging white-throated sparrows

Condor

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 386-390

  Dolby, Andrew S ^a   Temple, John G ^a   Williams, Laura E ^a   Dilger, Emily K ^a   Stechler, Katrina M ^a   Davis, Vanessa S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothermia; Thermoregulation; White throated Sparrow; Zonotrichia albicollis

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; ZONOTRICHIA; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 2342464237     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7503     Document Type: Article

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