The Florida Scrub Jay: Demography of a Cooperative-Breeding Bird. (Mpb-20)

by Glen Everett Woolfenden and John W. Fitzpatrick

Florida Scrub Jays are an excellent example of a cooperative-breeding species, in which adult birds often help raise offspring not their own. For more than a decade Glen E. Woolfenden and John W. Fitzpatrick studied a marked population of these birds in an attempt to establish a demographic base for understanding the phenomenon of "helping at the nest." By studying both population biology and behavior, the authors found that habitat restraints,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691083673
• ISBN13: 9780691083674
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"