Geographic variation in nests of Yellow Warblers breeding in Churchill, Manitoba, and Elgin, Ontario

Condor

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 596-604

  Rohwer, Vanya G ^a   Law, James S Y ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Arctic breeding; Dendroica petechia; Geographic variation; Nests; Yellow Warbler

Indexed keywords

AVES; DENDROICA PETECHIA;

EID: 77956936491     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2010.090229     Document Type: Article

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