Tag: Brown-headed Cowbird

BREEDING BIOLOGY OF BROOD PARASITIC BROWN-HEADEDCOWBIRDS (MOLOTHRUS ATER) CHARACTERIZED BY PARENT-OFFSPRING AND SIBLING-GROUP RECONSTRUCTION

Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) Science Article 11 abstract We characterized several equivocal aspects of the breeding biology of the broodparasitic Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) at a study site in northeastern Illinois. Atotal of 175 offspring and a partial sample of parents were sampled and genotyped at sixmicrosatellite loci. A combination of sibling-group and parentage assignment […]