Hybridization and changes in the distribution of Iceland gulls (Larus glaucoides/kumlieni/thayeri)
Three Iceland gull taxa were de®ned mainly from adult wingtip melanism. Up until about 1860, nominate glaucoides (no melanism) was known to breed from Greenland to western High Arctic Canada, but by about 1900 it was essentially con®ned to Greenland. Until 1860, thayeri (most melanism) was known onl...
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2000
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.689.7258 http://gull-research.org/papers/papers5/Weir+et+al.+2000.+Hybridization+and+changes+in+the+distribution+of+Iceland+gulls.pdf |
Summary: | Three Iceland gull taxa were de®ned mainly from adult wingtip melanism. Up until about 1860, nominate glaucoides (no melanism) was known to breed from Greenland to western High Arctic Canada, but by about 1900 it was essentially con®ned to Greenland. Until 1860, thayeri (most melanism) was known only |
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