Great flights by great snipes: long and fast non-stop migration over benign habitats

Migratory land birds perform extreme endurance flights when crossing ecological barriers, such as deserts, oceans and ice-caps. When travelling over benign areas, birds are expected to migrate by shorter flight steps, since carrying the heavy fuel loads needed for long non-stop flights comes at cons...

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Main Authors: Klaassen, Raymond H. G., Alerstam, Thomas, Carlsson, Peter, Fox, James W., Lindström, Åke
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2011
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Animal Behaviour
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3210655/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21613283
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0343
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