Variation in the song of a sub-oscine, the vermilion flycatcher

Behaviour

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1121-1138

  Ríos Chelén, Alejandro Ariel ^a   Macías Garcia, Constantino ^a   Riebel, Katharina ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bird song; Individual variation; Song variation; Sub oscine; Tyranidae; Vermilion flycatcher

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERI; PYROCEPHALUS; PYROCEPHALUS RUBINUS;

EID: 31344452940     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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