The ecology of song improvisation as illustrated by north american sedge wrens

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 373-386

  Kroodsma, Donald E ^a   Wan Chun, Liu ^a   Goodwin, Elijah ^a   Bedell, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; PASSERINE; SONG;

CISTOTHORUS PALUSTRIS; CISTOTHORUS PLATENSIS;

EID: 0345620783     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089372     Document Type: Article

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