Timing of pairing in waterfowl II: Testing the hypotheses with Harlequin Ducks

Waterbirds

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 506-520

  Rodway, Michael S ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Wildwing Environmental Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost benefit trade offs; Courtship; Female mate choice; Harlequin Duck; Histrionicus histrionicus; Pairing chronology; Sexual selection; Winter time budgets

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MATE CHOICE; PAIR BOND; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; TRADE-OFF; WATERFOWL;

ANATIDAE; HISTRIONICUS; HISTRIONICUS HISTRIONICUS;

EID: 39449108657     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2007)030[0506:TOPIWI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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