Responses of Bell's Vireos to brood parasitism by the brown-headed cowbird in Kansas

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 499-504

  Parker, Timothy H ^a,b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; EGG REJECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NEST DESERTION;

UNITED STATES;

MOLOTHRUS ATER; VIREO BELLII;

EID: 0033430215     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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