Red-Winged Blackbirds: Decision-Making and Reproductive Success

by Gordon H. Orians and Les D. Beletsky

Book Overview

Drawing on detailed data from their sixteen-year study of red-winged blackbirds in the marshes of Washington's Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, Beletsky and Orians analyze the information redwings use to make breeding-season decisions and the consequences these decisions have for lifetime reproductive success. Because male and female redwings make different, and often independent, decisions--males focus on territory acquisition and maintenance,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226041875
• ISBN13: 9780226041872
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"