Cuckoo females preferentially use specific habitats when searching for host nests

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 843-850

  Vogl, Wolfgang ^a,d   Taborsky, Michael ^b   Taborsky, Barbara ^a,d   Teuschl, Yvonne ^a,e   Honza, Marcel ^c  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d KLIVV   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; EGG REJECTION; HABITAT SELECTION; HOST; MIMICRY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE;

CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 0037785220     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.1967     Document Type: Article

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