Effects of Brown-headed Cowbirds and predators on the nesting success of Yellow Warblers in southwest Colorado;Efectos del parasitismo por Molothrus ater y de depredadores en el éxito de anidaje de Dendroica petechia en el suroeste de Colorado

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 516-524

  Ortega, Joseph C ^a   Ortega, Catherine P ^a  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDROICA PETECHIA; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 0034347844     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1648/0273-8570-71.3.516     Document Type: Article

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