Vocal and Optical Indicators of Individual Quality in a Social Seabird, the Crested Auklet (Aethia cristatella)

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 356-365

  Klenova, Anna V ^a   Zubakin, Victor A ^b,c   Zubakina, Elena V ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^c Russian Bird Conservation Union   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; BODY SIZE; BREEDING POPULATION; OLFACTORY CUE; ORNAMENTATION; PLUMAGE; SEABIRD; SIGNALING; VOCALIZATION;

MAGADAN [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; PACIFIC OCEAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEA OF OKHOTSK; TALAN ISLAND;

AETHIA CRISTATELLA; ALCIDAE; ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 79952408194     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01880.x     Document Type: Article

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