Extra-group courtship displays and other reproductive tactics of superb fairy-wrens

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 131-143

  Mulder, Raoul A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; MALURUS CYANEUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 0030767828     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO96041     Document Type: Article

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