Daily stopovers as optimal migration strategy in a long-distance migrating passerine: The Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe

Ardea

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 593-605

  Delingat, Julia ^a   Dierschke, Volker ^b   Schmaljohann, Heiko ^c   Mendel, Bettina ^b   Bairlein, Franz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Northern Wheatears; Optimal migration strategies; Search and settling costs; Spring migration

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL DATE; BODY MASS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MIGRATORY POPULATION; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; PASSERINE; STOPOVER;

AVES; OENANTHE (AVES); OENANTHE OENANTHE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 34248166047     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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