Growth and plumage development of nestling long-eared owls

Condor

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 981-985

  Seidensticker, Mathew T ^a   Flockhart, D T Tyler ^b   Holt, Denver W ^a   Gray, Kathy ^c  

^a Owl Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asio otus; Concealment; Down development; Growth rate; Logistic growth function; Postnatal growth; Prefledging period

Indexed keywords

ASIO OTUS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 33845186012     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2006)108[981:GAPDON]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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