Egg size and laying order of snowy egrets, great egrets, and black-crowned night-herons
Condor
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Abstract
The authors' objective was to describe egg size in relation to laying order for Great Egrets (Casmerodius albus ), Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula ), and Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax ) in a southern Texas colony and Great Egrets in a southern Florida colony. Based on egg-size patterns in other colonial waterbirds and the occurrence of brood reduction in egrets and herons, they predicted that the final egg laid in a clutch would be smaller than those laid earlier.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Egg size and laying order of snowy egrets, great egrets, and black-crowned night-herons |
| Series title | Condor |
| DOI | 10.2307/1368698 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 1990 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Oxford Academic |
| Contributing office(s) | Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center |
| Description | 4 p. |
| First page | 772 |
| Last page | 775 |