Dramatic orientation shift of white-crowned sparrows displaced across longitudes in the high arctic

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1591-1597

  Åkesson, Susanne ^a   Morin, Jens ^a   Muheim, Rachel ^a,b   Ottosson, Ulf ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; MAGNETISM; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPARROW;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; GEOGRAPHY; MAGNETICS; ORIENTATION; SPARROWS;

AVES; PASSERI; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS GAMBELII;

EID: 24044540366     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.07.027     Document Type: Article

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