Short sketches from the long history of cooperative breeding in Australian birds

Boland, C; Cockburn, Andrew

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Short sketches from the long history of cooperative breeding in Australian birds

Date

2002

Authors

Boland, C

Cockburn, Andrew

Publisher

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Abstract

We review the early literature and correspondence on two cooperatively breeding Australian passerines, the Superb Fairy-wren, Malurus cyaneus, and the White-winged Chough, Corcorax melanorhamphos. We show that recognition of cooperative breeding in these