Response of female hooded mergansers to eggs of an interspecific brood parasite

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 269-273

  Dugger, Bruce D ^a,b   Bollmann, Lia C ^a   Fredrickson, Leigh H ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033009061     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089479     Document Type: Article

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