Egg discrimination and pecking behaviour in parasitic cowbirds

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1128-1135

  Llambías, Paulo E ^a   Ferretti, Valentina ^a   Reboreda, Juan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEST; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BROOD PARASITISM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PASSERINE; SEX DETERMINATION; SONGBIRD;

AVES; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS BONARIENSIS;

EID: 33749840001     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01272.x     Document Type: Article

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