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Título: | Field determination of age in male great bustards (Otis tarda) in spring |
Autor: | Alonso López, Juan C. CSIC ORCID ; Magaña, Marina; Martín, Carlos A. CSIC ORCID; Palacín, Carlos CSIC ORCID ; Alonso López, Javier A. | Palabras clave: | Great bustard Otis tarda Plumage development Secondary sex characters |
Fecha de publicación: | 2006 | Editor: | Springer Nature | Citación: | European Journal of Wildlife Research, 52(1):43–47 (2006) | Resumen: | During a long-term study of individually marked, free-living male great bustards captured as chicks and radio-tracked through several years in Spain, we studied the development with age of two secondary sex traits, the moustachial feathers and the neck plumage pattern. Juvenile males acquired full adult plumage between their fourth and seventh years. The main changes occurred at the neck, coinciding with the onset of sexual maturity. The grey colour typical of immature males turned to ivory white around the fourth to fifth spring, and a gradual increase was appreciated in adults in the brightness of the white colour of the upper neck and in the contrast between this and a progressively more intense chestnut brown at the neck base. Based on these changes, we proposed four neck plumage patterns that can be used to differentiate male age classes during the mating period. The development of moustachial feathers showed more interindividual variability and was not as useful as the neck plumage to estimate male age | Descripción: | 5 paginas y 2 figuras | Versión del editor: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-005-0004-4 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/77239 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10344-005-0004-4 | ISSN: | 1612-4642 | E-ISSN: | 1439-0574 |
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