Bird song learning in an eavesdropping context

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 929-935

  Beecher, Michael D ^a   Burt, John M ^a   O'Loghlen, Adrian L ^a   Templeton, Christopher N ^a   Campbell, S Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

eavesdropping; Melospiza melodia; passerine; social learning; song acoustics; song learning; song repertoire; song sparrow; vocal communication

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOACOUSTICS; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 34249986385     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.013     Document Type: Article

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