Green coloration of recently laid black-crowned night-heron eggs

Colonial Waterbirds
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Abstract

Color of Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax ) eggs of known laying order was quantified in a Wisconsin colony. Eggs were of greener intensity on the day of laying and one day thereafter than earlier laid eggs within a clutch. Egg color can be used to identify clutches within one day after clutch completion and to assign laying order within clutches during this period.
Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Green coloration of recently laid black-crowned night-heron eggs
Series title Colonial Waterbirds
DOI 10.2307/1521510
Volume 14
Issue 2
Year Published 1991
Language English
Publisher Waterbird Society
Contributing office(s) Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Description 2 p.
First page 184
Last page 185
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