Geographic variation in black-capped chickadee songs and singing behavior

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 387-402

  Kroodsma, Donald E ^a   Byers, Bruce E ^a   Halkin, Sylvia L ^b   Hill, Christopher ^c   Minis, Dolly ^d   Bolsinger, Jeffrey R ^a   Dawson, Jo Anne ^a   Donelan, Elizabeth ^a   Farrington, Jeffrey ^a   Gill, Frank B ^e   Houlihan, Peter ^a   Innes, Doug ^d   Keller, Geoff ^d   Macaulay, Linda ^d   Marantz, Curtis A ^a   Ortiz, Jan ^d   Stoddard, Philip K ^f   Wilda, Krista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d National Audubon Society ^*  (United States)

^e NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY   (United States)

^f FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; PASSERINE; SONG; SPATIAL VARIATION;

POECILE ATRICAPILLUS;

EID: 0032940395     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089373     Document Type: Article

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