Social factors affect the singing rates of female northern cardinals Cardinalis cardinalis

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-57

  Vondrasek, Joanna R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; SONG; SONGBIRD;

AVES; CARDINALIS; CARDINALIS CARDINALIS;

EID: 33645122917     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2005.0908-8857.03489.x     Document Type: Article

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