Nesting biology of three grassland passerines in the northern tallgrass prairie

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-223

  Winter, Maiken ^a,d   Johnson, Douglas H ^b   Shaffer, Jill A ^b   Svedarsky, W Daniel ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; CLUTCH SIZE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; NEST PREDATION; NEST SITE; NESTING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; PRAIRIE;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; DOLICHONYX; DOLICHONYX ORYZIVORUS; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; PASSERCULUS SANDWICHENSIS; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; SPIZELLA; SPIZELLA PALLIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10644228749     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/03-082     Document Type: Article

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