What cues do brown-headed cowbirds use to locate red-winged blackbird host nests?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1181-1189

  Clotfelter, Ethan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD; HOST LOCATION; RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD;

USA; WISCONSIN;

AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; AVES; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; PERCIDAE; TURDUS ILIACUS; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 0032077251     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0638     Document Type: Article

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