Experiments and observations of prothonotary warblers indicate a lack of adaptive responses to brood parasitism
It has been suggested that prothonotary warblers, Protonotaria citrea, respond adaptively to brood parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds, Molothrus ater, even though they lack historical habitat and range overlap with cowbirds. I studied behaviours functioning as potential defences against brood paras...
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Published in | Animal behaviour Vol. 65; no. 5; pp. 935 - 944 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Kent
Elsevier Ltd
01.05.2003
Elsevier Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Ltd |
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