East and west coast female brown-headed cowbirds agree: Both categories of male song are sexy

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 609-617

  O'Loghlen, Adrian L ^a   Rothstein, Stephen I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; PASSERINE; SONG;

AVES; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; MOLOTHRUS ATER ATER; PASSERI;

EID: 0036421418     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3081     Document Type: Article

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