Great Spotted Cuckoo Nestlings but not Magpie Nestlings Starve in Experimental Age-Matched Broods

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1036-1044

  Soler, Manuel ^a,b   de Neve, Liesbeth ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMS RACE; AVIFAUNA; BIRD; BODY SIZE; BROOD PARASITISM; DIET; FOOD QUALITY; NESTLING; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; NEW RECORD; POULTRY;

AVES; CLAMATOR GLANDARIUS; CORVIDAE; PICA PICA;

EID: 84867098507     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12004     Document Type: Article

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