Responses to songs with altered tonal quality by adult song sparrows (melospiza melodia)

Behaviour

Volumn 133, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 161-172

  Strote, Jared ^a   Nowicki, Stephen ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONTOGENY; SONG; SONG SPARROW; TONAL QUALITY;

MELOSPIZA MELODIA;

EID: 0030436681     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853996x00099     Document Type: Article

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