Looking above the prairie: Localized and upward acute vision in a native grassland bird

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tyrrell, Luke P ^a   Moore, Bret A ^a   Loftis, Christopher ^b   Fernandez Juricic, Esteban ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BINOCULAR VISION; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SONGBIRD; VISION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; PASSERIFORMES; RETINA; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84888993129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03231     Document Type: Article

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