Seasonal home range size of tropical kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) in the southern Amazon Basin

Ornitologia Neotropical

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-46

  Jahn, Alex E ^a   Ledezma, Jesús Pinto ^b   Mamanl, Ana María ^b   Degroote, Lucas W ^c   Levey, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Cerrado; Color banding; Dispersal; Radio telemetry; Seasonality; Tropical kingbird; Tyrannus melancholicus

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952328505     PISSN: 10754377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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