Mouth coloration in nestling birds: increasing detection or signalling quality?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1413-1420

  Wiebe, Karen L ^a   Slagsvold, Tore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

begging; bird; coloration; detection; food allocation; offspring quality; signal

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BIRD; CAROTENOID; COLOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; RECOGNITION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VOCALIZATION;

AVES;

EID: 70649089291     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.09.013     Document Type: Article

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