Timing and distance of king eider migration and winter movements

Condor

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 296-305

  Oppel, Stefen ^a   Powel, Abby N ^a   Dickson, D Lynne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

King Eider; Migration; Migratory connectivity; Satellite telemetry; Somateria spectabilis

Indexed keywords

AVES; SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS;

EID: 58849086891     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2008.8502     Document Type: Article

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