Dickcissel Parent Caught on Camera Committing Infanticide (IMAGE)

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

Dickcissel Parent Caught on Camera Committing Infanticide

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A new University of Illinois study provides video evidence of parental infanticide in dickcissels, small grassland birds of the Midwestern US.

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Scott Nelson

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