Male starlings sing most in the late morning, following egg-laying: a strategy to protect their paternity?

Behaviour

Volumn 135, Issue 9-10, 1998, Pages 1197-1211

  Pinxten, Rianne ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 0042352740     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853998792913474     Document Type: Article

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