Selective attrition and individual song repertoire development in song sparrows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1413-1418

  Nordby, J Cully ^a   Campbell, S Elizabeth ^b   Beecher, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Melospiza melodia; song learning; song sparrow; vocal communication

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; SELECTION; SONG; SONGBIRD;

AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA;

EID: 35748976830     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.02.008     Document Type: Article

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