Sociality among foraging ardeidae? Does plumage coloration influence nearest-neighbor spacing?

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 344-352

  Green, M Clay ^a,b   Leberg, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PLUMAGE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPACING;

ARDEA ALBA; ARDEA HERODIAS; ARDEIDAE; AVES; CASMERODIUS; EGRETTA CAERULEA; EGRETTA THULA;

EID: 33845218446     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2006)156[344:SAFADP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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