How males in the house wren, a cavity-nesting songbird, discover that eggs have hatched and transition to provisioning nestlings

Behaviour

Volumn 145, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1781-1796

  Scott Johnson, L ^a   Brubaker, Jessica L ^a,b   Johnson, Bonnie G P ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity nesting; Hatching; House wren; Parental care; Troglodytes aedon

Indexed keywords

AVES; MAMMALIA; PASSERI; TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES AEDON;

EID: 67249153035     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853908786279655     Document Type: Article

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