Male Brown-headed Cowbird Attacks and Kills a Nestling

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 210-212

  Igl, Lawrence D ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEST PREDATION; NESTLING; PASSERINE;

DAY COUNTY; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS AENEUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0346640400     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/02-109     Document Type: Article

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