Conclusive evidence for conspecific brood parasitism in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus: A reply to Griffith et al.

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 348-349

  Vedder, Oscar ^a   Komdeur, Jan ^a   van der Velde, Marco ^a   Magrath, Michael J L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANISTES CAERULEUS;

EID: 77954166242     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04942.x     Document Type: Note

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