Floater males engage in extrapair copulations with resident female tree swallows

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 264-269

  Barber, Colleen A ^a,b   Robertson, Raleigh J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0032966655     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089478     Document Type: Article

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