It is time to move: Linking flight and foraging behaviour in a diving bird

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 357-359

  Pelletier, David ^a   Guillemette, Magella ^a   Grandbois, Jean Marc ^a   Butler, Patrick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common eider; Data logger; Diving behaviour; Flying behaviour; Free living birds; Heart rate

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SHAPE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; OCEANIC CURRENT; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVING; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FLIGHT; FORAGING; HEART RATE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCEAN CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME; ANIMAL; DUCK; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLYING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANAS; AVES; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

ANIMALS; DIVING; DUCKS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HEART RATE;

EID: 35248858827     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0088     Document Type: Article

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