The function of song in whitethroats sylvia communis

Bioacoustics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-30

  Balsby, Thorsten J S ^a,b  

^a Natural History Museum   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Silent strategy; Song function

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; MATE ATTRACTION; SONG; TERRITORIALITY;

SYLVIA COMMUNIS;

EID: 0033816107     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2000.9753447     Document Type: Article

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