Brown-headed cowbird parasitism results in a sink population in Warbling Vireos

Auk

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 337-344

  Ward, David ^a,b   Smith, James N M ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POPULATION MODELING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; OKANAGAN VALLEY;

AVES; JUNCO; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; VIREO; VIREO GILVUS; VIREONIDAE;

EID: 0034007987     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089715     Document Type: Article

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