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I wish to restrict my comments largely to one general area of the points which have been discussed during the conference, namely the extent to which birds can evolve different characteristics in different habitats. This problem has several inter-connected aspects concerning the rate of possible gene-flow between such habitats, the quality of individual birds and the associated problems of dispersal.
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Perrins, C.M. (1990). Concluding Remarks: Dispersal and Gene Flow. In: Blondel, J., Gosler, A., Lebreton, JD., McCleery, R. (eds) Population Biology of Passerine Birds. NATO ASI Series, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75110-3_40
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