Plumage brightness predicts non-breeding season territory quality in a long-distance migratory songbird, the American redstart Setophaga ruticilla

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 34-41

  Reudink, Matthew W ^a,b   Studds, Colin E ^b   Marra, Peter P ^b   Kurt Kyser, T ^a   Ratcliffe, Laurene M ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Smithsonian Migr Bird Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NEARCTIC REGION; NEOTROPICAL REGION; ORNAMENTATION; OVERWINTERING; PLUMAGE; SONGBIRD;

AVES; AVICENNIA GERMINANS; PASSERI; SETOPHAGA RUTICILLA;

EID: 58249098500     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2008.04377.x     Document Type: Article

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