The strategy of fly-and-forage migration, illustrated for the osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1865-1875

  Strandberg, Roine ^a   Alerstam, Thomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bird migration; Foraging; Migration strategies; Osprey; Stopover

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION; PREY LOCATION; RAPTOR; STOPOVER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

AVES; PANDION; PANDION HALIAETUS;

EID: 34548563739     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0426-y     Document Type: Article

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