Female red-winged blackbirds accrue material benefits from copulating with extra-pair males

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 625-639

  Gray, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGELAIUS; AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; PICA; PICA PICA;

BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; PREDATION RISK; RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD;

EID: 0031082123     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0336     Document Type: Article

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