Partnerships in Birds: The Study of Monogamy

Abstract

Initial Perspectives introduction - pair bonds and partnerships the battle of the sexes and the origins of monogamy the model family continuous partnerships long-term monogamy in a river specialist - the blue duck do barnacle geese benefit from life-long monogamy? mate fidelity in swans breeding partnership in two new world jays partnerships in promiscuous splendid fairy-wrens part-time partnerships divorce in the European blackbird mate fidelity and divorce in ptarmigan Causes and consequences of long-term partnerships in Cassin's auklets monogamy in a long-lived seabird: the short-tailed shearwaters between and within-population variation in mate fidelity in the great tit monogamy in the sparrowhawk mate fidelity in penguins causes and consequences of mate fidelity in red-billed gulls dispersal, demography, and the persistence of partnerships in indigo buntings concluding Perspectives monogamy and sperm competition in birds mate fidelity and divorce in monogamous birds.