Singing behavior of lekking Green Hermits

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 149-152

  MacDougall Shackleton, Elizabeth ^a   Harbison, Heidi ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Green Hermits; Leks; Phaethornis guy; Song production

Indexed keywords

PHAETHORNIS GUY;

EID: 0031933878     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369907     Document Type: Article

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