Flight Modes in Migrating European Bee-Eaters: Heart Rate May Indicate Low Metabolic Rate during Soaring and Gliding

• Nir Sapir ,

  * E-mail: nir.sapir@mail.huji.ac.il

  Current address: Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Movement Ecology Laboratory, Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Martin Wikelski,

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Vogelwarte Radolfzell, Radolfzell, Germany, Department of Biology, Konstanz University, Konstanz, Germany

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• Marshall D. McCue,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Berry Pinshow,

  Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

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• Ran Nathan

  Affiliation Movement Ecology Laboratory, Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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