Host use strategies of individual female brown-headed cowbirds Molothrus ater in a diverse avian community

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 313-321

  Strausberger, Bill M ^a   Ashley, Mary V ^b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOST USE; PARASITISM; PASSERINE;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 22544461941     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2005.03323.x     Document Type: Article

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