Have winter spacing patterns of Harlequin Ducks been partially shaped by sexual selection?

Waterbirds

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 415-426

  Rodway, Michael S ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Wildwing Environmental Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

Courtship; Delayed plumage maturation; Grouping; Harlequin Duck; Herring Spawn; Histrionicus histrionicus; Mate Sampling; Sex ratio; Winter time budgets

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; GAMEBIRD; MATE CHOICE; MATURATION; PLUMAGE; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPACING; WATERFOWL; WINTER;

ANATIDAE; AVES; CLUPEIDAE; HISTRIONICUS; HISTRIONICUS HISTRIONICUS;

EID: 33847378101     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2006)29[415:HWSPOH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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