Female attraction to male song in house wrens (Troglodytes aedon)

Behaviour

Volumn 133, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 357-366

  Johnson, L Scott ^a   Searcy, William A ^b  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSE WREN; MATE ATTRACTION; SONG;

USA, WYOMING;

TROGLODYTES AEDON;

EID: 0030423894     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853996x00495     Document Type: Article

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