Long-term persistence of song dialects in the Mountain White-crowned Sparrow

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 133-148

  Harbison, Heidi ^a   Nelson, Douglas A ^b   Hahn, Thomas P ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird song; Cultural evolution; Population size; Song dialects; White crowned Sparrow; Zonotrichia leucophrys

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERIDAE; ZONOTRICHIA; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS ORIANTHA;

EID: 0033014275     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370454     Document Type: Article

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