Fine morphology of experimental tail streamers and flight manoeuvrability in the house martin Delichon urbica

Functional Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 389-396

  Matyjasiak, Piotr ^a   Marzal, Alfonso ^b   Navarro, Carlos ^b   De Lope, Florentino ^b   Møller, Anders Pape ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

Author keywords

Feather shape; Flight performance; Natural selection; Sexual selection; Tail elongation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AERODYNAMICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; MOVEMENT; PASSERINE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING; TAIL FEATHER;

AVES; DELICHON; DELICHON URBICA; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA;

EID: 62449305165     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01490.x     Document Type: Article

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