Cultural divergence within novel song in the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

Auk

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 853-871

  Gammon, David E ^a,b   Baker, Myron C ^a   Tipton, John R ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Black capped Chickadee; Cultural evolution; Geographic variation; Poecile atricapillus; Song learning

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; PASSERINE; SONG;

APOIDEA; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; POECILE ATRICAPILLUS;

EID: 23044509523     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0853:CDWNSI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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