Coordination of female nest attentiveness with male song output in the cavity-nesting House Wren Troglodytes aedon

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-14

  Ziolkowski Jr , David J ^a   Johnson, L Scott ^a   Hannam, Kristina M ^b   Searcy, William A ^b  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROGLODYTES AEDON; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTINAE;

CAVITY NESTING; HOUSE WREN; NEST ATTENTIVENESS; SONG;

EID: 1842415974     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3677088     Document Type: Article

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