Migratory restlessness in captive individuals predicts actual departure in the wild

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Eikenaar, Cas ^a   Klinner, Thomas ^a   Szostek, K Lesley ^a   Bairlein, Franz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

Migratory restlessness; Proxy; Radio telemetry; Stopover; Zugunruhe

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CAPTIVITY; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PHENOLOGY; RADIOTELEMETRY; STOPOVER; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SONGBIRD; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; PASSERIFORMES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84900431488     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0154     Document Type: Article

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