Seasonal changes in male and female bill knob size in the mute swan Cygnus olor

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 511-519

  Horrocks, Nicholas ^b,c   Perrins, Christopher ^b   Charmantier, Anne ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BREEDING SEASON; HATCHING; MOLT; ORNAMENTATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; WATERFOWL;

AVES; CYGNUS; CYGNUS OLOR;

EID: 70349482712     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2008.04515.x     Document Type: Article

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