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Patterns of primary moult in the Weavers, Ploceidae

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Main Author: Oschadleus, Hans-Dieter
Other Authors: Underhill, Les
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Statistical Sciences 2014
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9979 Patterns of primary moult in the Weavers, Ploceidae Oschadleus, Hans-Dieter Underhill, Les Statistical Sciences Includes bibliographical references. Patterns of renewal of feathers are poorly known in African birds. Moult is energetically costly and is thus an important part of a bird's annual cycle; moult needs to be fitted in with breeding activities, and in some species, migration. Ringers in southern Africa have been submitting primary moult data to SAFRING, the South African Bird Ringing Unit, since 1998, providing a large amount of data that the author has been curating and checking on an on-going basis as Ringing Coordinator. May main interest is in the weaverbirds and I have ringed several thousand Southern Masked Weavers Ploceus velatus and many other species. Les Underhill and Walter Zucchini developed a statistical model to analyse timing and duration of primary moult in a standardized way in 1988. Primary moult was analysed in the southern African weaverbird family using the Underhill-Zucchini method throughout. In some species, this method was applied to individual feathers as well as the whole wing. 2014-12-13T06:23:19Z 2014-12-13T06:23:19Z 2005 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9979 eng application/pdf Department of Statistical Sciences Faculty of Science University of Cape Town
spellingShingle Statistical Sciences
Oschadleus, Hans-Dieter
Patterns of primary moult in the Weavers, Ploceidae
thesis_degree_str Doctoral
title Patterns of primary moult in the Weavers, Ploceidae
title_full Patterns of primary moult in the Weavers, Ploceidae
title_fullStr Patterns of primary moult in the Weavers, Ploceidae
title_full_unstemmed Patterns of primary moult in the Weavers, Ploceidae
title_short Patterns of primary moult in the Weavers, Ploceidae
title_sort patterns of primary moult in the weavers ploceidae
topic Statistical Sciences
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9979
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