Responses of adult white-crowned sparrows to playback of song phrases: Implications for the ontogeny of song recognition

Condor

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 848-854

  Soha, Jill A ^a,b   Whaling, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Recognition; Song ontogeny; Song phrases; White crowned Sparrow; Zonotrichia leucophrys

Indexed keywords

AVES; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS NUTTALLI;

EID: 3242734590     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0848:ROAWCS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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