Nest sanitation plays a role in egg burial by yellow warblers

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 247-256

  Guigueno, Mélanie F ^a   Sealy, Spencer G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; CLEANING BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INCUBATION; PARASITISM; SONGBIRD;

DENDROICA PETECHIA; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 59149097247     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01597.x     Document Type: Article

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