Clutch abandonment by parasitized yellow warblers: Egg burial or nest desertion?

Condor

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 399-406

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Clutch abandonment; Dendroica petechia; Egg burial; Nest desertion; Yellow warbler

Indexed keywords

DENDROICA PETECHIA; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 77953389961     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2010.090135     Document Type: Article

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