Do Free-Ranging Common Nighthawks Enter Torpor?
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 95 (1) , 157-162
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1369397
Abstract
There is conflicting evidence as to whether Common Nighthawks (Chordeiles minor) can enter torpor. The purpose of this study was to determine if torpor is used ...This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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