Badge size in collared flycatchers predicts outcome of male competition over territories

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 893-899

  Pärt, Tomas ^a   Qvarnström, Anna ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BADGE SIZE; COLLARED FLYCATCHER; COMPETITION; MALE BEHAVIOUR; PLUMAGE COLOURATION;

FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; PIERIS BRASSICAE;

EID: 17044460658     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0514     Document Type: Article

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