Responses to playback of whistle songs and normal songs in male nightingales: Effects of song category, whistle pitch, and distance

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 216-223

  Naguib, Marc ^a,b   Mundry, Roger ^a   Hultsch, Henrike ^a   Todt, Dietmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird song; Long range communication; Luscinia megarhynchos; Song matching; Vocal interactions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; SONG; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; PASSERI;

EID: 0036705557     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-002-0511-1     Document Type: Article

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