Bower location and orientation in Satin Bowerbirds: Optimising the conspicuousness of male display?

Emu

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 105-109

  Doucet, Stéphanie M ^a   Montgomerie, Robert ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CANOPY GAP; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION; RAINFOREST; SITE SELECTION; SLOPE;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; PTILONORHYNCHIDAE; PTILONORHYNCHUS VIOLACEUS;

EID: 0041624503     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU02024     Document Type: Article

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