Why pishing works: Titmouse (Paridae) scolds elicit a generalized response in bird communities

Ecoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 485-496

  Langham, Gary M ^a,b   Contreras, Thomas A ^c,d   Sieving, Kathryn E ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic similarity; Generalized mobbing response; Holarctic; Paridae; Pishing; Response similarity; Scold calls

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; HOLARCTIC REGION; MOBBING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

AVES; PARIDAE;

EID: 33846286776     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/1195-6860(2006)13[485:WPWTPS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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