Social constraints on the onset of incubation in a neotropical parrot: A nestbox addition experiment

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-32

  Beissinger, Steven R ^a,b   Tygielski, Susanne ^a   Elderd, Bret ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG DESTRUCTION; GREEN-RUMPED PARROTLET; INCUBATION; NEST BOX;

FORPUS PASSERINUS; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES;

EID: 0031960286     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0576     Document Type: Article

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