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Nutrition and metabolism Nutrition and metabolism

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Authors
H.L. Short

Bird activity levels related to weather Bird activity levels related to weather

The Breeding Bird Survey data bank serves as a primary source for studying effects of sky cover, wind speed, and temperature on bird census results. Other standardized methods, such as spot-mapping (Breeding Bird Census), point counts, banding, and the Winter Bird Survey, provide additional, but limited, means of assessing effects of weather. Numbers of songbirds detected are generally...
Authors
C.S. Robbins

Birds Birds

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Authors
R.M. Erwin
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