The scaling of primary flight feather length and mass in relation to wing shape, function and habitat

Ibis

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 283-292

  Dawson, Alistair ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATHER; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PASSERINE; WING MORPHOLOGY;

AVES; CORVUS FRUGILEGUS; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 17444404964     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00400.x     Document Type: Article

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