Migration timing and wintering areas of three species of Flycatchers (tyrannus) breeding in the great plains of North America

Auk

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 247-257

  Jahn, Alex E ^a,b   Cueto, Víctor R ^b   Fox, James W ^c,d   Husak, Michael S ^e   Kim, Daniel H ^f   Landoll, Diane V ^g   Ledezma, Jesús Pinto ^h   LePage, Heather K ^a   Levey, Douglas J ^a,i   Murphy, Michael T ^j   Renfrew, Rosalind B ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d Migrate Technology Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e CAMERON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^h Centro de Investigación Económica del Colegio de Economista   (Bolivia)

ⁱ NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^j PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k Vermont Center for Ecostudies   (United States)

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Author keywords

Eastern Kingbird; Light level geolocator; Migration speed; Nebraska; Neotropics; Oklahoma; Scissor tailed Flycatcher; Tyrannus; Western Kingbird; Wintering area

Indexed keywords

AUTECOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOLT; PASSERINE; PHENOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; WINTER;

HEXAPODA; TYRANNUS; TYRANNUS FORFICATUS; TYRANNUS TYRANNUS; TYRANNUS VERTICALIS;

EID: 84878847662     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2013.13010     Document Type: Article

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