Objective assessment of sexual plumage dichromatism in the Picui Dove

Condor

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 248-254

  Mahler, Bettina ^a   Kempenaers, Bart ^a  

^a Division Ornitologia   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Columbidae; Picui Dove; Sexual dichromatism; Spectral reflectance; Ultraviolet vision

Indexed keywords

AVES; COLUMBIDAE; COLUMBINA; COLUMBINA PICUI;

EID: 0036249252     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0248:OAOSPD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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