Passerines use nocturnal flights for landscape-scale movements during migration stopover

Condor

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 597-607

  Mills, Alexander M ^a,b,d   Thurber, Bethany G ^a,c   MacKenzie, Stuart A ^a,c   Taylor, Philip D ^a,b  

^a Bird Studies Canada   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catharus; Landscape scale; Migration; Scale; Stopover ecology; Telemetry; Thrush

Indexed keywords

AVES; CATHARUS; CATHARUS GUTTATUS; CATHARUS USTULATUS;

EID: 80052390937     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2011.100186     Document Type: Article

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