Neotropical model systems: Social and mating behavior of birds

Ornitologia Neotropical

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL., 2008, Pages 85-93

  Macedo, Regina H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blue black Grassquit; Cooperative breeding; Extrapair paternity; Guira Cuckoo; Guira guira; Mating systems; Neotropics; Sociality; Southern Lapwing; Vanellus chilensis; Volatinia jacarina

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349091227     PISSN: 10754377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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