Orientation experiments with displaced juvenile barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) during autumn migratory season

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 624-633

  Giunchi, Dimitri ^a   Baldaccini, N Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autumn migration; Barn swallow; Compensatory behaviour; Day migrant; Nonsense orientation; Orientation; Reverse migration

Indexed keywords

MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; HIRUNDINIDAE; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA;

EID: 32144433157     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0089-5     Document Type: Article

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