Nest-site selection by female black-capped Chickadees: Settlement based on conspecific attraction?

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 604-617

  Ramsay, Scott M ^a   Otter, Ken ^a,b   Ratcliffe, Laurene M ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; NEST SITE; SITE SELECTION;

PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; PASSERIFORMES; POECILE ATRICAPILLUS;

EID: 0032839896     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089322     Document Type: Article

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