Timing and duration of egg laying in duetting Buff-breasted Wrens

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-36

  Gill, Sharon A ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding; Female behavior; Neotropics; Panama; Thryothorus leucotis

Indexed keywords

THRYOTHORUS; THRYOTHORUS LEUCOTIS; TROGLODYTINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037412482     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1648/0273-8570-74.1.31     Document Type: Article

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