Spring stopover routines in Russian Barnacle Geese Branta leucopsis tracked by resightings and geolocation

Ardea

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 667-678

  Eichhorn, Götz ^a   Afanasyev, Vsevolod ^b   Drent, Rudolf H ^a   Van Der Jeugd, Henk P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branta leucopsis; Geolocation; GLS; Spring migration; Tracking; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ARRIVAL DATE; BREEDING POPULATION; CENSUS; COASTAL ZONE; INCUBATION; LAYING DATE; STOPOVER; WATERFOWL;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC REGION; EURASIA; KANIN PENINSULA; NENETS; NORTH SEA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WADDEN SEA; WHITE SEA;

ANSER; AVES; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; THORACICA;

EID: 33645798781     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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