Pairing decisions in the Harlequin Duck: Costs and benefits

Waterbirds

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 340-347

  Torres, Roxana ^a   Cooke, Fred ^a   Robertson, Gregory J ^a   Boyd, W Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Foraging behavior; Harlequin Duck; Histrionicus histrionicus; Pair formation; Time budgets

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; PAIR BOND; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; WATERFOWL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; WHITE ROCK;

ANAS; ANAS SP.; ANATIDAE; ANIMALIA; ANSER; AVES; HISTRIONICUS HISTRIONICUS;

EID: 0036709439     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2002)025[0340:pdithd]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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