Male songbirds provide indirect parental care by guarding females during incubation

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1034-1038

  Fedy, Bradley C ^a,b   Martin, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; Gray headed juncos; Mate guarding; Parental care; Red faced warblers

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE GUARDING; PARENTAL CARE; PATERNITY; SONGBIRD; VIGILANCE;

CARDELLINA; JUNCO (AVES); PASSERI;

EID: 70349464786     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp094     Document Type: Article

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