Sexual size dimorphism and assortative mating in the short- tailed shearwater puffinus tenuirostris

• Main Authors: Einoder, L., Page, B., Goldsworthy, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: African Seabird Group 2008
• Subjects: Assortative mating; bill depth; intercolony variation; sexing; sexual size dimorphism; Luke; Puffinus tenuirostris
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/53896

© Marine Ornithology 2008 To improve methods for sexing live birds in field studies, we assessed sexual size dimorphism in the Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris and produced a sex-discriminating function. Despite a degree of overlap in body size, males were significantly larger than fema...