Variation in chick-a-dee calls of a Carolina chickadee population, Poecile carolinensis: Identity and redundancy within note types

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 2127-2136

  Freeberg, Todd M ^a,b   Lucas, Jeffrey R ^a   Clucas, Barbara ^a,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOCOMMUNICATIONS;

CHICKADEE SPECIES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

COMMUNICATION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BIRD; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SEX FACTORS; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0037380992     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1559175     Document Type: Article

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