Geographic Variation in Secondary Sexual Plumage Colour Characteristics of the Male Pied Flycatcher
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Ornis Scandinavica
- Vol. 17 (4) , 293-298
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3676816
Abstract
The plumage colour of the head and back of the male Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca varies from a female-like brown to pure black, and the mean colour of a p...This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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