Large-scale movement patterns between song dialects in brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater)

Auk

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 803-818

  Anderson, Kurt E ^a   Rothstein, Stephen I ^a   Fleischer, Robert C ^a,b   O'Loghlen, Adrian L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown headed Cowbird; Dispersal; Geographic variation; Local adaptation; Mark recapture; Molothrus ater; Song dialects

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PASSERINE; SONG;

AVES; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 23044492585     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0803:LMPBSD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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