Morphological differentiation of Brown-headed Cowbirds in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Ward, David ^a,b   Smith, James N M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brood parasite; Brown headed Cowbird; Hybridization; Molothrus ater; Morphology; Population differentiation

Indexed keywords

CANADA; COWBIRD; MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION;

AVES; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031935339     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369891     Document Type: Article

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