Timing and sequence of moult, and the trade-off with breeding, in the Speckled Warbler ( Chthonicola sagittata )

Gardner, Janet; Marsack, P R; Blackmore, Caroline

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Timing and sequence of moult, and the trade-off with breeding, in the Speckled Warbler ( Chthonicola sagittata )

Date

2008

Authors

Gardner, Janet

Marsack, P R

Blackmore, Caroline

Publisher

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Abstract

We examined the timing, sequence and rate of moult and its relationship to breeding in a small, insectivorous passerine, the Speckled Warbler (Chthonicola sagittata). Adult Speckled Warblers moulted remiges and rectrices during a discrete annual event in