Doucet, Stéphanie M.; Mennill, Daniel J.; Montgomerie, … - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 1, pp. 218-222
The size of achromatic (black, white, gray) plumage patches serves as a male status signal in many species of birds, but variation in the colors of these patches has received little attention. We assessed the relation between achromatic plumage reflectance, dominance rank, body condition, and...