Sexing Mute Swans Cygnus olor by discriminant analysis

Ringing and Migration

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 174-180

  Brown, Allan W ^a   Brown, Lyndesay M ^a   Stevick, Peter I ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; WATERFOWL;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANIMALIA; ANSER; ANSERIFORMES; CYGNUS; CYGNUS OLOR; OLOR;

EID: 0038269715     PISSN: 03078698     EISSN: 21598355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03078698.2003.9674288     Document Type: Article

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