Effect of egg covering and habitat on nest destruction by House Wrens

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 873-879

  White, Douglas W ^a   Kennedy, E Dale ^a  

^a ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg covering; Egg destruction; House Wren; Nest destruction; Nest site selection; Troglodytes aedon

Indexed keywords

AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; PARUS BICOLOR; TROGLODYTES AEDON; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 0030777801     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370137     Document Type: Article

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