Adoption: Adaptation or reproductive error in Eastern Bluebirds?

Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 419-422

  Wetzel, Daniel P ^a,b   Chandler, C Ray ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; BREEDING SEASON; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FERTILITY; FOOD PROVISIONING; NEST GUARDING; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

SIALIA SIALIS;

EID: 45149126390     PISSN: 15594491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/07-045.1     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. AVITAL, E., E. JABLONKA, AND M. LACHMANN. 1998. Adopting adoption. Animal Behaviour 55:1451-1459.
2. GORI, D. F., R. SIEVERT, AND J. CASELLE. 1996. Accepting unrelated broods helps replacement male Yellow-headed Blackbirds attract mates. Behavioral Ecology 7:49-54.
3. GOWATY, P. A. 1983a. Male parental care and apparent monogamy among Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis). American Naturalist 121:149-157.
4. GOWATY, P. A. 1983b. Overlap of two broods of Eastern Bluebirds in the same nest and brood reduction. Wilson Bulletin 95:148-150.
5. GOWATY, P. A. AND J. H. PLISSNER. 1998. Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis). The birds of North America. Number 381.
6. HAMILTON JR., W. J. 1943. Nesting of the Eastern Bluebird. Auk 60:91-94.
7. KREIG, D. C. 1971. The behavioral patterns of the Eastern Bluebird. New York State Museum and Science Service Bulletin Number 415.
8. MEEK, S. B., R. J. ROBERTSON, AND P. T. BOAG. 1994. Extrapair paternity and intraspecific brood parasitism in Eastern Bluebirds revealed by DNA fingerprinting. Auk 111:739-744.
9. PINKOWSKI, B. C. 1977. Breeding adaptations of the Eastern Bluebird. Condor 79:289-302.
10. PINKOWSKI, B. C. 1978. Two successive male Eastern Bluebirds tending the same nest. Auk 95:606-608.
11. PLISSNER, J. H. AND P. A. GOWATY. 1988. Evidence of reproductive error in adoption of nestling Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis). Auk 105:575-578.
12. ROHWER, S. 1986. Selection for adoption versus infanticide by replacement "mates" in birds. Current Ornithology 3:353-395.
13. SIEFFERMAN, L. AND G. E. HILL. 2005a. Evidence for sexual selection on structural plumage coloration in female Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis). Evolution 59:1819-1828.
14. SIEFFERMAN, L. AND G. E. HILL. 2005b. UV-blue structural coloration and competition for nestboxes in male Eastern Bluebirds. Animal Behaviour 69:67-72.