Accepting unrelated broods helps replacement male yellow-headed blackbirds attract mates

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-54

  Gori, David F ^a,b   Rohwer, Sievert ^a   Caselle, Jennifer ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Birds; Infanticide; Renesting dispersal; Replacement males; Yellow headed blackbird

Indexed keywords

ALLOPARENTAL CARE; MATE ATTRACTION; YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD;

ICTERIDAE; TURDUS MERULA; XANTHOCEPHALUS; XANTHOCEPHALUS XANTHOCEPHALUS;

EID: 0029753670     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/7.1.49     Document Type: Article

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