Egg colour matching in an African cuckoo, as revealed by ultraviolet-visible reflectance spectrophotometry

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1467, 2001, Pages 565-571

  Cherry, M I ^a   Bennett, A T D ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Avian colour vision; Brood parasitism; Cuckoos; Egg coloration; Mimicry; Reflectance spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COLOR; EGG; MIMICRY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; COLOR VISION; EGG; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY;

AVES; CUCULIDAE;

EID: 0035932321     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1414     Document Type: Article

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