Two aberrant serpent-eagles may be visual mimics of bird-eating raptors

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 307-314

  Negro, Juan J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bird of prey; Mobbing; Plumage convergence; Plumage pattern; Predation; Snake eagle

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMISM; MIMICRY; MOBBING; PHYLOGENETICS; PLUMAGE; PREDATION; RAPTOR; SNAKE; SYMPATRY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF GUINEA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; ACCIPITER HENSTII; ACCIPITRIDAE; ACCIPITRINAE; AQUILA; AVES; DRYOTRIORCHIS SPECTABILIS; EUTRIORCHIS ASTUR; RAPTORES; SPIZAETUS AFRICANUS;

EID: 41149096953     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00782.x     Document Type: Article

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