First-year common nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos) have smaller song-type repertoire sizes than older males

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1217-1224

  Kiefer, Sarah ^a   Spiess, Anne ^a,b   Kipper, Silke ^a   Mundry, Roger ^a,c   Sommer, Christina ^a   Hultsch, Henrike ^a   Todt, Dietmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONG; SONGBIRD;

AVES; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS;

EID: 33751234938     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01283.x     Document Type: Article

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