Detection and discrimination of natural calls in masking noise by birds: Estimating the active space of a signal

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 763-777

  Lohr, Bernard ^a   Wright, Timothy F ^b   Dooling, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CALLING BEHAVIOR; DETECTION METHOD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SIGNALING; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; SERINUS; SERINUS CANARIA; SERINUS CANARIUS; TAENIOPYGIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0242668292     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2093     Document Type: Article

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