Dispersal from natal territories and the origin of cooperatively polyandrous breeding groups in the Brown Skua

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 335-342

  Young, E C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brown Skua; Catharacta lonnbergi; Chatham Islands; Cooperative breeding; Natal dispersal; Philopatry; Polyandry

Indexed keywords

AVES; CATHARACTA LONNBERGI; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031805778     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370274     Document Type: Article

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