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

by John W. Fitzpatrick and Glen E. Woolfenden

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, rather...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691083665
• ISBN13: 9780691083667
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"