Brown-headed cowbirds in eastern and western north America show similar use of courtship songs in copulation contexts

Condor

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 866-872

  Gorney Labinger, Edna ^a   Rothstein, Stephen I ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cowbird; Female choice; Geographic variation; Mating behavior; Molothrus ater; Sexual selection; Song

Indexed keywords

MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 3242703098     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0866:BHCIEA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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