What makes a 'local song' in a population of ortolan buntings without a common dialect?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-130

  Osiejuk, Tomasz S ^a   Ratyńska, Katarzyna ^a   Dale, Svein ^b  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

dialect; Emberiza hortulana; ortolan bunting; song learning; song perception; song repertoire

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; PASSERINE; RECOGNITION; SONG;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EMBERIZA; EMBERIZA HORTULANA;

EID: 34347205260     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.08.013     Document Type: Article

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