Intra-Summer Movement and Probable Dual Breeding of the Eastern Marsh Wren, Wilson Journal of Ornithology Article, 2015
Entry/Object ID
2016.41.37
Scope and Content
Intra-Summer Movement and Probable Dual Breeding of the Eastern Marsh Wren, Wilson Journal of Ornithology Article, 2015. 127(3): 494-498. Journal article by Mark Robbins, using data from Floyd Lawhon bird sightings field notes and others.
Abstract:
Midwest breeding populations of the eastern North American Marsh Wren (Cistothorus p. palustris) perform intra-summer movements presumably to breed at two different locations during the same summer. It appears that birds that initially breed during May-June move south to breed again during mid-July through August. Because this unique behavior is shared with its closest living relative, the North American Sedge Wren (C, platensis stellaris) it may be an ancestral trait of Cistothorus...
Mark Robbins is an evolutionary biologist with special interest in birds. He has been a collection manager of two major ornithological collections over the past 33 years. The initial eleven years were at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and since 1993, he has been at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute.
