Individual and sexual differences in the calls of the monomorphic White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-52

  Volodin, Ilya A ^a,b   Volodina, Elena V ^b   Klenova, Anna V ^a   Filatova, Olga A ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Scientific Research Department   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Dendrocygna viduata; Individual differences; Sexual differences; Vocalization; White faced Whistling Duck

Indexed keywords

INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; WATERFOWL;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; AVES; DENDROCYGNA VIDUATA;

EID: 22944467863     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/068.040.0110     Document Type: Article

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