Segregation of information in a complex acoustic signal: individual and dialect identity in white-crowned sparrow song

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1073-1084

  Nelson, Douglas A ^a   Poesel, Angelika ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bird song; individual recognition; song dialect; white crowned sparrow; Zonotrichia leucophrys

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RECOGNITION; SONG; SONGBIRD;

AVES; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS PUGETENSIS;

EID: 35148894389     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.01.018     Document Type: Article

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