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Breeding and multiple waves of primary molt in common ground doves of coastal Sinaloa

For adult Common Ground Doves from Sinaloa we demonstrate that the primaries are a single molt series, which sometimes feature two (in one case three) waves of feather replacement. Such stepwise primary replacement is found in many large birds but, at 40 g, this dove is much the smallest species rep...

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Autores principales: Rohwer, Sievert, Rohwer, Vanya G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5787347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29379683
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4243