Mate protection and winter pair-bonds in black-capped Chickadees

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 424-433

  Lemmon, David ^a   Withiam, Matthew L ^b   Barkan, Christopher P L ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO   (United States)

^c ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS   (United States)

Author keywords

Black capped Chickadee; dominance rank; mate protection; Parus atricapillus; winter association indices; winter pair bonds

Indexed keywords

AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS;

EID: 0030973282     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369949     Document Type: Article

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