Migration routes and strategies in a highly aerial migrant, the common swift Apus apus, revealed by light-level geolocators

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Åkesson, Susanne ^a   Klaassen, Raymond ^a   Holmgren, Jan ^a   Fox, James W ^b,c   Hedenström, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c Migrate Technology Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALTITUDE; APUS APUS; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIRD; BREEDING; CONGO; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; SONGBIRD; SPRING; SWEDEN; WIND; WINTER;

AFRICA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTOPERIOD; PRESSURE; SEASONS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; WIND;

APUS APUS; AVES;

EID: 84864007382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041195     Document Type: Article

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