Do European starlings prefer light environments containing UV?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 923-928

  Greenwood, Verity J ^a   Smith, Emma L ^a   Cuthill, Innes C ^a   Bennett, Andrew T D ^a   Goldsmith, Arthur R ^a   Griffiths, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; PASSERINE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION; WAVELENGTH;

AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0037785204     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.1977     Document Type: Article

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