Obligatory barrier crossing and adaptive fuel management in migratory birds: The case of the Atlantic crossing in Northern Wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1069-1078

  Delingat, Julia ^a   Bairlein, Franz ^a   Hedenström, Anders ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b Ecology Building ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Barrier crossing; Flight costs; Fuel loads; Oenanthe oenanthe; Optimal migration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MIGRATION ROUTE; MIGRATORY POPULATION; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PASSERINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); EURASIA; EUROPE; FAIR ISLE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SCOTLAND; SHETLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; OENANTHE (AVES); OENANTHE OENANTHE;

EID: 42449099546     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0534-8     Document Type: Article

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