Two distinct song populations of blue tit parus caeruleus in the french mediterranean

Bioacoustics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-16

  Doutrelant, Claire ^a   Hitier, Simon ^a   Lambrechts, Marcel M ^a   Aubin, Thierry ^b  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Blue tit; Dialect; Interspecific competition; Parus caeruleus; Regiolect; Song

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002680356     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.1998.9753376     Document Type: Article

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