Responses of a sub-oscine bird during playback: Effects of different song variants and breeding period

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-325

  Rios Chelen A A ^a   Garcia, C Macías ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Playback; Pyrocephalus rubinus; Sub oscine; Territorial response; Vermilion flycatcher

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; MALE BEHAVIOR; SONG; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FLYING; FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MATING; MUSIC; NESTING; NONHUMAN; SINGING; TERRITORIALITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; PASSERI; PYROCEPHALUS; PYROCEPHALUS RUBINUS;

EID: 33847100486     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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