Delayed plumage maturation in Eurasian kestrels: female mimicry, subordination signalling or both?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1505-1513

  Vergara, Pablo ^a   Fargallo, Juan A ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

agonistic behaviour; Eurasian kestreli; extrapair copulation; Falco tinnunculus; mating; moult; rump; sexual deception

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; COURTSHIP; MATING BEHAVIOR; MATURATION; MIMICRY; PLUMAGE; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNALING;

AVES; FALCO TINNUNCULUS;

EID: 35748958409     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.03.013     Document Type: Article

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