Characteristics of the wing sounds of four hummingbird species that breed in Canada

Condor

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 570-582

  Hunter, Todd A ^a,b   Picman, Jaroslav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital sound analysis; Hummingbirds; Wing hum; Wing trill; Wing beat frequency

Indexed keywords

ARCHILOCHUS ALEXANDRI; AVES; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 23744516958     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2005)107[0570:COTWSO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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