Biometrics of ruffs philomachus pugnax migrating in spring through southern belarus with special emphasis on the occurrence of ‘faeders’

Ringing and Migration

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 134-140

  Karlionova, Natalia ^a   Pinchuk, Pavel ^a   Meissner, Włodzimierz ^b   Verkuil, Yvonne ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Belarus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; BREEDING POPULATION; DNA; PLUMAGE; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; WADER;

AFRICA; BELARUS; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LENA RIVER; NORTH AFRICA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AVES; PHILOMACHUS PUGNAX;

EID: 34250351873     PISSN: 03078698     EISSN: 21598355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03078698.2007.9674359     Document Type: Article

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