Colourful males hold high quality territories but exhibit reduced paternal care in barn swallows

Behaviour

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 591-612

  Hasegawa, Masaru ^a   Arai, Emi ^b   Watanabe, Mamoru ^a   Nakamura, Masahiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

multiple ornaments; plumage colouration; sexual selection; tail length; territory quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896950942     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003150     Document Type: Article

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