Single-egg removal from an artificial nest by the Gray Catbird

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 426-429

  Hauber, Mark E ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEST; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG PREDATION;

DUMETELLA CAROLINENSIS; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 0031657363     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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