Migratory routes and stopover behaviour in avian migration

Migratory birds, some small and light weight as matchboxes, engage in seasonal inter-continental journeys in order to take advantage of the long summer days and abundance of food at northern latitudes to breed and raise their young, and then escape the harsh winters by migrating to lower latitudes....

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Main Author: Stach, Robert
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Zoologiska institutionen 2016
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-126975
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