Breeding success of common cuckoos Cuculus canorus parasitising four sympatric species of Acrocephalus warblers

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 394-398

  Kleven, Oddmund ^a   Moksnes, Arne ^b   Røskaft, Eivin ^b   Rudolfsen, Geir ^c   Stokke, Bård G ^b   Honza, Marcel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; MIMICRY; PARASITISM; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; MORAVIA;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; ACROCEPHALUS PALUSTRIS; ACROCEPHALUS SCHOENOBAENUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS; GALLUS GALLUS; PHRAGMITES;

EID: 4644242732     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2004.03359.x     Document Type: Article

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