The weak iridescent feather color in the Jungle Crow Corvus macrorhynchos

Ornithological Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-64

  Lee, Eunok ^a,c   Miyazaki, Jun ^b   Yoshioka, Shinya ^a   Lee, Hang ^c   Sugita, Shoei ^d  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epicuticle; Feather color; Iridescence; Jungle Crow; Thin film interference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874877086     PISSN: 13470558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2326/osj.11.59     Document Type: Article

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