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Adoption by a Territorial Passerine

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 2009 English Publisher:Informa UK LimitedJournal:The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, volume 121, pages 830-834 (issn: 1559-4491, eissn: 1938-5447, Copyright policy )
Authors: Russell A. Ligon; Mark Liu; Geoffrey E. Hill;

doi: 10.1676/08-158.1

Adoption by a Territorial Passerine

Abstract

We observed and video-taped active- ly nesting adult Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) repeatedly feeding abandoned conspecific juveniles in a nearby nest. We used molecular techniques to confirm these nestlings were unrelated to the adults that fed them. The most likely explanation for the observed behavior is that it was a mistake resulting from parental

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