Song complexity and song structure in the Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 144-150

  Feßl, Birgit ^a   Hoi, Herbert ^a  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE; SONG; VOCALIZATION;

ACROCEPHALUS MELANOPOGON;

EID: 0343526436     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-048x.2000.310206.x     Document Type: Article

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