Vocal development is correlated with an indicator of hatching date in brown-headed cowbirds

Condor

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 761-771

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cowbird; Dialects; Hatching date; Learning; Song; Vocal development

Indexed keywords

AVES; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; PASSERI;

EID: 0037875540     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0761:VDICWA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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