Dawn chorus and female behaviour in the Willow Tit Parus montanus

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Volumn 139, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-3

  Welling, Petteri ^a   Koivula, Kari ^a   Orell, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

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Indexed keywords

PARUS MONTANUS; SALIX;

EID: 0031019542     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1997.tb04497.x     Document Type: Article

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