Impact of Brood Parasitism by Brown-Headed Cowbirds on Red-Winged Blackbird Reproductive Success
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 101 (1) , 105-114
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1370451
Abstract
We examined brood parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) on a prairie-nesting population of Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) from 1984 ...This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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