Flexibility in daily travel routines causes regional variation in bird migration speed

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1427-1432

  Klaassen, Raymond H G ^a   Strandberg, Roine ^a   Hake, Mikael ^b   Alerstam, Thomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Flight speed; Habitat use; Landscape ecology; Satellite tracking; Time budget

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; ENERGY BUDGET; FEEDING GROUND; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; RAPTOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; VELOCITY;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SAHARA;

AVES; PANDION; PANDION HALIAETUS;

EID: 44949234559     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0572-x     Document Type: Article

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