Long-term changes in songs and song dialect boundaries of puget sound white-crowned sparrows

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 567-580

  Chilton, Glen ^a   Lein, M Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cultural transmission; dialect boundaries; song dialects; White crowned Sparrow; Zonotrichia leucophrys pugetensis

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERIDAE; ZONOTRICHIA; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS PUGETENSIS;

EID: 0029802909     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369569     Document Type: Article

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