Individual migration patterns of Eurasian golden plovers Pluvialis apricaria breeding in Swedish Lapland; examples of cold
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Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology. Faculty of Biology, University Complutense of Madrid, José Antonio Novais, Ciudad. Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain. San Juan Bautista 1, 4B. 28231 Las Rozas de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Virgen del Camino 3, 3D. 28911 Leganés Madrid, Spain. British Antarctic Survey, UK. Currently at Migrate Technology Ltd., Cambridge, UK. Dutch Centre for Avian Migration and Demography & Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6700AB, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Dutch Montagu’s Harrier foundation, Animal Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, Groningen University, Groningen, The Netherlands
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