Male detention affects extra-pair copulation frequency and pair behaviour in western bluebirds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 561-571

  Dickinson, Janis L ^a  

^a Hastings Reservation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; WESTERN BLUEBIRD;

SIALIA MEXICANA;

EID: 0031082120     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0331     Document Type: Article

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