Finding your mate in a seabird colony: Contrasting strategies of the Guillemot Uria aalge and King Penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus

Bird Study

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-33

  Lengagne, Thierry ^a,d   Harris, Mike P ^b   Wanless, Sarah ^b   Slater, Peter J B ^c  

^a Ctr Rech de Form en Eco Ecologie   (France)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD;

APTENODYTES; APTENODYTES PATAGONICUS; AVES; LARIDAE; SPHENISCIDAE; URIA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 1542320078     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650409461329     Document Type: Article

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