Geographic song variation and its consequences in the golden bowerbird

Condor

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 750-760

  Westcott, David A ^a   Kroon, Frederieke J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bowerbird; Dialect; Playback; Prionodura newtonia; Song variation

Indexed keywords

PRIONODURA; PRIONODURA NEWTONIANA;

EID: 0842329577     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0750:GSVAIC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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