Clutch variation and egg rejection in three hosts of the pallid cuckoo, Cuculus pallidus

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-36

  Landstrom, Michelle T ^a   Heinsohn, Robert ^b   Langmore, Naomi E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arms race; Brood parasitism; Clutch variation; Coevolution; Egg discrimination; Egg mimicry; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

ARTAMUS CYANOPTERUS; AVES; CUCULUS PALLIDUS; LICHENOSTOMUS PENICILLATUS; MELIPHAGIDAE; RHIPIDURA LEUCOPHRYS;

EID: 75449118304     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579509X12483520922043     Document Type: Article

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