Age-related changes in wing-length and body mass in the reed warbler acrocephalus scirpaceus and clamorous reed warbler a. Stentoreus

Bird Study

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 249-255

  Merom, Koby ^a   Mc Cleery, Robin ^b   Yom Tov, Yoram ^c  

^a Kibbutz Nir David   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; ACROCEPHALUS STENTOREUS;

EID: 0032842136     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063659909461137     Document Type: Article

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