Song repertoire is not affected by stress in an adult male songbird, the Whitethroat Sylvia communis

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 879-887

  Borowiec, Marta ^a   Łosak, Katarzyna ^b   Osiejuk, Tomasz S ^b   Halupka, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; DASYNOTUS; PASSERI; SYLVIA COMMUNIS;

EID: 34547962312     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907781492663     Document Type: Article

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