What are we missing with only ground-level mist nets? Using elevated nets at a migration stopover site

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 314-320

  Bonter, David N ^a,b   Brooks, Elizabeth W ^a   Donovan, Therese M ^c  

^a Braddock Bay Bird Observatory   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Migration monitoring; Mist net; Sampling bias; Stopover

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 52649083253     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: 15579263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1557-9263.2008.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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