Use of body mass, footpad length, and wing chord to determine sex in Swainson's Hawks

Journal of Raptor Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-141

  Kochert, Michael N ^a   McKinley, James O ^b  

^a FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Conservation Research Foundation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Buteo swainsoni; Discriminant analyses; Gender determination; Morphometric measurements; Swainson's Hawk

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; RAPTOR; SEX DETERMINATION;

ACCIPITRINAE; BUTEO SWAINSONI;

EID: 63049093110     PISSN: 08921016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3356/JRR-07-33.1     Document Type: Article

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