Ageing immature Atlantic Yellow-nosed Thalassarche chlororhynchos and Black-browed T. melanophris albatrosses in wintering grounds using bill colour and moult

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 249-252

  Bugoni, Leandro ^a,b   Furness, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Age determination; Albatrosses; Diomedeidae; Origin; Thalassarche chlororhynchos; Thalassarche melanophris

Indexed keywords

AVES; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; DIOMEDEIDAE; THALASSARCHE CHLORORHYNCHOS;

EID: 79959455934     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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