Female song in European Starlings: Sex differences, complexity, and composition

Condor

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 559-569

  Pavlova, Denitza ^a   Pinxten, Rianne ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

European Starling; Female song; Repertoire size; Sex differences; Songbird

Indexed keywords

PASSERI; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 23744497032     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2005)107[0559:FSIESS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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