Heterospecific sexual behaviour is notable because it should be strongly deterred by natural and sexual selection. Here we report observations of both male and female Ross’s Gulls (Rhodostethia rosea) routinely engaging in sexual displays directed towards other species during the breeding season at a small, remote colony in the Canadian High Arctic. We suggest that in small, reproductively isolated populations, directing stereotyped courtship displays towards heterospecific partners may allow individuals to advertise fitness and experience to both male and female conspecifics and also accelerate hormonal development and readiness to mate during the brief and unpredictable High Arctic breeding season.Le comportement sexuel hétérospécifique e...
Darwin devised sexual selection theory in order to explain the evolution and maintenance ...
International audienceSex identification of birds is relevant to studies of evolutionary biology and...
Small and immature gulls foraged more often on drifting salmon eggs than did large and mature gulls,...
Published accounts list only four breeding sites for Ross’s gull (Rhodostethia rosea) in North Ameri...
We found a small, previously undiscovered breeding colony of Ross’s gulls (Rhodostethia rosea) in Nu...
Life history theory focuses on how phenotypic traits interact to determine an organism's fitness, wh...
We studied the reproductive biology of Sabine’s Gulls (Xema sabini) breeding on Southampton Island, ...
ABSTRACT. Published accounts list only four breeding sites for Ross’s gull (Rhodostethia rosea) in N...
Only 15 cases of breeding of Ross's gull Rhodostethia rosea are known outside of Siberia. While nume...
The earliest information on Sabine's gull, Ross's gull and Ivory gull was collected by several heroi...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997Successful breeding in the Arctic requires precisely ...
ABSTRACT. We found a small, previously undiscovered breeding colony of Ross’s gulls (Rhodostethia ro...
Glaucous-winged gulls (Larus glaucescens) and Western gulls (Larus occidentalis) are found along the...
Darwin devised sexual selection theory in order to explain the evolution and maintenance ...
Darwin devised sexual selection theory in order to explain the evolution and maintenance ...
Darwin devised sexual selection theory in order to explain the evolution and maintenance ...
International audienceSex identification of birds is relevant to studies of evolutionary biology and...
Small and immature gulls foraged more often on drifting salmon eggs than did large and mature gulls,...
Published accounts list only four breeding sites for Ross’s gull (Rhodostethia rosea) in North Ameri...
We found a small, previously undiscovered breeding colony of Ross’s gulls (Rhodostethia rosea) in Nu...
Life history theory focuses on how phenotypic traits interact to determine an organism's fitness, wh...
We studied the reproductive biology of Sabine’s Gulls (Xema sabini) breeding on Southampton Island, ...
ABSTRACT. Published accounts list only four breeding sites for Ross’s gull (Rhodostethia rosea) in N...
Only 15 cases of breeding of Ross's gull Rhodostethia rosea are known outside of Siberia. While nume...
The earliest information on Sabine's gull, Ross's gull and Ivory gull was collected by several heroi...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997Successful breeding in the Arctic requires precisely ...
ABSTRACT. We found a small, previously undiscovered breeding colony of Ross’s gulls (Rhodostethia ro...
Glaucous-winged gulls (Larus glaucescens) and Western gulls (Larus occidentalis) are found along the...
Darwin devised sexual selection theory in order to explain the evolution and maintenance ...
Darwin devised sexual selection theory in order to explain the evolution and maintenance ...
Darwin devised sexual selection theory in order to explain the evolution and maintenance ...
International audienceSex identification of birds is relevant to studies of evolutionary biology and...
Small and immature gulls foraged more often on drifting salmon eggs than did large and mature gulls,...