flycatchers: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (_Tyrannus forficatus_)...

Description Usage Format Source

Description

Various standard morphological measures (mass, wing chord) for Scissor-tailed Flycatchers.

Usage

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Format

A data frame (tibble) with 149 rows and 9 variables:

mass

numeric, body mass in g

tarsus

numeric, tarsus length in mm

wing

numeric, wing chord in mm

notch

numeric, depth of primary notch in mm

tail

numeric, tail length in mm

asym

numeric, tail asymmetry as the difference between left and right lengths in mm

functional

numeric, functional tail feather length in mm

ornament

numeric, ornamental tail feather length in mm

sex

factor, male or female

Source

Roeder, D.V., Husak, M.S., Murphy, M.T. et al. Size, ornamentation, and flight feather morphology promote within-pair paternity in a sexually dimorphic passerine. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 73, 90 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-019-2704-x Raw data deposited in Dryad https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.2qv284p


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