Correlates of reproductive success in cooperatively breeding Western American Crows: If helpers help, it's not by much

Condor

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 333-341

  Caffrey, Carolee ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American Crow; Cooperative breeding; Corvus brachyrhynchos; Incubation date; Pair quality; Predation; Reproductive success

Indexed keywords

CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS;

EID: 0034034831     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369645     Document Type: Article

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