Age-related variations in bill size of Chinstrap Penguins

Waterbirds

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 66-68

  Mínguez, Eduardo ^a,b   Fargallo, Juan Antonio ^a   De León, Ana ^a   Moreno, Juan ^a   Moreno, Eulalia ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age; Bill size; Chinstrap penguin; Pygoscelis antarctica; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002174359     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521732     Document Type: Article

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