Individual variation in the advertising call of male Northern Saw-whet Owls

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 398-405

  Otter, Ken ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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