The first case of successful breeding of a Golden Eagle Aguila chrysaetos tracked from birth by satellite telemetry

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 205-209

  Urios, Vicente ^a   Soutullo, Alvaro ^a   López López, Pascual ^a,b   Cadahía, Luis ^c   Limiñana, Rubén ^a   Ferrer, Miguel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breeding; Juvenile dispersal; Natal dispersal; Raptors; Satellite tracking

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; JUVENILE; NATAL DISPERSAL; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TELEMETRY; TRACKING;

AQUILA; AVES; RAPTORES;

EID: 38949184199     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/068.042.0205     Document Type: Article

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