First record of a communal roost of Short-toed Eagles Circaetus gallicus

Ibis

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 173-175

  Muñoz, Antonio Román ^a   Toxopeus, Bert ^b   Elorriaga, Javier ^a   Gonzalez, Juan Miguel ^a   Yáñez, Beatriz ^a  

^a Fundación Migres Ctra N 340   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Migration bottleneck; Roosting behaviour; Spring migration; Strait of Gibraltar

Indexed keywords

MIGRATION; NEW RECORD; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; RAPTOR; ROOSTING;

STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

ACCIPITRIDAE; CIRCAETUS GALLICUS;

EID: 71949091625     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00974.x     Document Type: Article

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