The cost of host egg damage caused by a brood parasite: Experiments on great spotted cuckoos (Clamator glandarius) and magpies (Pica pica)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 381-386

  Soler, Manuel ^a   Soler, Juan José ^a   Pérez Contreras, Tomás ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Clamator glandarius; Coevolution; Egg damaging behaviour; Pica pica

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG PREDATION;

CLAMATOR GLANDARIUS; PICA PICA;

EID: 0032728279     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050633     Document Type: Article

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