Birds flee en mass from New Year's Eve fireworks

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1173-1177

  Shamoun Baranes, Judy ^a   Dokter, Adriaan M ^a   Van Gasteren, Hans ^b   Van Loon, E Emiel ^a   Leijnse, Hidde ^c   Bouten, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Air Force Command   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

birds; disturbance; fireworks; flight; Natura 2000; radar; waterfowl

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FESTIVAL; FIRE; FLIGHT; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; RADAR; WATERFOWL; WETLAND; WILD POPULATION;

NETHERLANDS;

ANATIDAE; ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 80455178716     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr102     Document Type: Article

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