UV-blue structural coloration and competition for nestboxes in male eastern bluebirds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-72

  Siefferman, Lynn ^a   Hill, Geoffrey E ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; MATE CHOICE; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

AVES; SIALIA; SIALIA SIALIS; SIALIS;

EID: 11144309669     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.12.026     Document Type: Article

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