- Title
- Sexing adult pale-winged starlings using morphometric and discriminant function analysis
- Creator
- Henry, Laurence, Biquand, Véroniquee, Craig, Adrian J F K, Hausberger, Martine
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465458
- Identifier
- vital:76611
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135628
- Description
- Accurate sexing of birds is vital for behavioral studies but can be a real problem in the field, especially for monomorphic species. Our goal here was to characterize the morphology of male and female monomorphic pale-winged starlings (Onychognathus nabouroup), a South African sturnid whose plumage is sexually monomorphic. Morphological measurements of genetically sexed animals indicated that males were statistically larger than females for five measurements: Mass, tail length, tarsus length and wing length. By using a Discriminant Function Analysis based on the measurements taken by one ringer, we were able to predict correctly the sex of 81.10% of the birds of data collected in the field and 77.9% of museum skins independently of year of capture and ringer. The model developed here should be useful for further field studies of this species.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, Henry, L., Biquand, V., Craig, A.J. and Hausberger, M., 2015. Sexing adult pale-winged starlings using morphometric and discriminant function analysis. PLoS One, 10(9), p.e0135628, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa volume 10 number 9 1 9 2015 1932-6203
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