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1 September 2007 JUVENILE LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO
LUKE A. BELL, JAMES C. PITMAN, MICHAEL A. PATTEN, DONALD H. WOLFE, STEVE K. SHERROD, SAMUEL D. FUHLENDORF
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Abstract

We examined growth rates and physical development of four body characteristics (mass, wing chord, bill length, and head width) of Lesser Prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) 3 to 111 days post-hatch in southeastern New Mexico. Growth rates, inflection points, and selected growth curves (logistic and Gompertz) associated with body mass and wing chord were similar between Lesser Prairie-chickens in New Mexico and Kansas. The asymptotic body mass (713 ± 7 g) was less for female and male yearling Lesser Prairie-chickens in New Mexico than for either yearling females or males in Kansas (male: 789 ± 4, female: 719 ± 6). Juvenile Lesser Prairie-chickens in New Mexico achieved 90% of their asymptotic body mass 7 days faster than Lesser Prairie-chickens in Kansas.

LUKE A. BELL, JAMES C. PITMAN, MICHAEL A. PATTEN, DONALD H. WOLFE, STEVE K. SHERROD, and SAMUEL D. FUHLENDORF "JUVENILE LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO," The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119(3), 386-391, (1 September 2007). https://doi.org/10.1676/05-125.1
Received: 18 October 2005; Accepted: 1 October 2006; Published: 1 September 2007
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