Ranging behaviour of a juvenile Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis) in South Africa revealed by GPS satellite telemetry

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 114-118

  Urios, Vicente ^a   López López, Pascual ^b   Liminana, Rubén ^a   Godino, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COLLISION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; MOUNTAIN REGION; RANGE SIZE; RAPTOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TELEMETRY; TERRITORIALITY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

GYPAETUS BARBATUS;

EID: 77957128511     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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