Did blue eggs of Black-billed (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) and Yellow-billed (C. americanus) Cuckoos evolve to counter host discrimination?

Auk

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 851-854

  Lorenzana, Janice C ^a   Sealy, Spencer G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG PARASITOID; MIMICRY;

CAROLINENSIS; COCCYZUS; COCCYZUS AMERICANUS; COCCYZUS ERYTHROPTHALMUS; CUCULIDAE; DUMETELLA; DUMETELLA CAROLINENSIS; TURDUS; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS;

EID: 0036656006     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/auk/119.3.851     Document Type: Article

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