Sexing terns using biometrics: The advantage of within-pair comparisons

Bird Study

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 78-83

  Fletcher, Kathy L ^a   Hamer, Keith C ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artctic Tern; Assortative mating; Common Tern; Discriminant analysis; Sterna hirundo; Sterna paradisaea

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SEABIRD; SEX DETERMINATION;

AVES; HIRUNDO; LARIDAE; PARADISAEA; STERNA; STERNA HIRUNDO; STERNA PARADISAEA;

EID: 0037347378     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650309461294     Document Type: Article

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