Repeated presentations of the Common Cuckoo increase nest defense by the Eurasian Reed Warbler but do not induce it to make recognition errors

Condor

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 763-769

  Čapek, Miroslav ^a   Požgayová, Milica ^a   Procházka, Petr ^a   Honza, Marcel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Acrocephalus scirpaceus; Cuculus canorus; Nest defense; Recognition errors; Repeated visits

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; AVES; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 78650634938     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2010.100063     Document Type: Article

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