Avian visual perspective on plumage coloration confirms rarity of sexually monochromatic North American passerines

Auk

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 155-161

  Eaton, Muir D ^a,b  

^a Bell Museum of Natural History   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian visual modeling; Color discrimination; Hidden sexual dichromatism

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; COLOR MORPH; MORPHOMETRY; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE; RARITY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

AVES;

EID: 33846817354     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2007)124[155:AVPOPC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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