Overproduction in song development: An evolutionary correlate with migration

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1127-1140

  Nelson, Douglas A ^a,b   Marler, Peter ^a   Morton, Martin L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUTTALL'S WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW; SONG;

ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS;

EID: 0030131633     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0114     Document Type: Article

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