Host use and fecundity of individual female brown-headed cowbirds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-106

  Woolfenden, Bonnie E ^a,c   Gibbs, H Lisle ^a,d   Sealy, Spencer G ^b   McMaster, D Glen ^b,e  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Saskatchewan Watershed Authority   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BROOD PARASITISM; FECUNDITY; HOST SELECTION; HOST USE; PASSERINE;

CANADA; DELTA MARSH; MANITOBA;

MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 0042813708     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2181     Document Type: Article

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