Quantification of microscopic feather characters used in the identification of north American plovers

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-57

  Dove, Carla J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charadrius; feathers; microcharacters; plumulaceous; variation

Indexed keywords

CHARADRIUS; CHARADRIUS VOCIFERUS; CICONIIFORMES; PLUVIALIS; PLUVIALIS SQUATAROLA;

EID: 0031002484     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370223     Document Type: Article

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