Spatial pattern of song element sharing and its implications for song learning in the chowchilla, Orthonyx spaldingii

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1019-1028

  Koetz, Anna H ^a   Westcott, David A ^b   Congdon, Bradley C ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

bird song; chowchilla; dispersal; Orthonryx spaldingii; song dialect; song learning; spatial variation

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; LEARNING; SONG; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AVES; ORTHONYX; ORTHONYX SPALDINGII; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 35148841406     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.11.035     Document Type: Article

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