Green nesting material has a function in mate attraction in the European starling

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 539-548

  Brouwer, Lyanne ^a   Komdeur, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; MATE ATTRACTION; MATING BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

STURNIDAE; STURNUS; STURNUS VULGARIS; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 1542348513     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.07.005     Document Type: Article

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