Criteria used to assign Pelagic Cormorants to age classes and molt episodes. Molt episodes are defined as first, second, and adult (third and subsequent) as described in the text. The arrest in molt indicated for SY birds during May–August is followed by a (?) because it is unclear whether all birds actually arrest their molts around the breeding season during juvenile feather replacement
Criteria used to assign Pelagic Cormorants to age classes and molt episodes. Molt episodes are defined as first, second, and adult (third and subsequent) as described in the text. The arrest in molt indicated for SY birds during May–August is followed by a (?) because it is unclear whether all birds actually arrest their molts around the breeding season during juvenile feather replacement
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