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Journal of African Ornithology
Volume 81, 2010 - Issue 1: Special Memorial Issue for Steven Edward Piper
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Relative feather mass indices: are feather masses needed to estimate the percentage of new feather mass grown for moult regression models?

Bo T Bonnevie Information Technology Division, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa
Pages 59-62 | Received 01 Apr 2009, Accepted 01 Sep 2009, Published online: 31 Mar 2010

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