Environmental constraints and cooperative breeding in the Azure-winged Magpie

Condor

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 608-617

  Canário, Filipe ^a   Matos, Susana ^a   Soler, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Azure winged Magpie; Cooperative breeding; Cyanopica cyanus; Ecological constraints; Helpers; Parental care; Reproductive success

Indexed keywords

CYANOPICA CYANUS; CYANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4043178278     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7454     Document Type: Article

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