Discrimination of individual voices in male Great Bitterns (Botaurus stellaris) in Italy

Auk

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 541-547

  Puglisi, Luca ^a   Adamo, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; VOCALIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARDEIDAE; AVES; BOTAURUS STELLARIS;

EID: 2942531058     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/auk/121.2.541     Document Type: Article

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