Host Selection by the Shiny Cowbird
- 1 May 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 90 (2) , 289-303
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1368557
Abstract
Factors important in Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis) host selection were examined within the mangrove community in Puerto Rico. Cowbirds did not parasitiz...This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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