The good and the bad stopover: Behaviours of migrant reed warblers at two contrasting sites

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1135-1143

  Ktitorov, Pavel ^a,b,c   Tsvey, Arseny ^a   Mukhin, Andrey ^a  

^a Zoological Institute   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Energy reserves; Exploratory movements; Habitat quality; Reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus; Stopover duration

Indexed keywords

DUNE; HABITAT QUALITY; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MOVEMENT; PASSERINE; STOPOVER;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 77953698208     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0929-9     Document Type: Article

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