Individuality in scops owl otus scops vocalisations

Bioacoustics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-172

  Dragonetti, Marco ^a  

^a Gruppo Ornitologico Maremmano   (Italy)

Author keywords

Otus; Scops Owl; Vocal identification; Vocal individuality; Vocal variability

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; INDIVIDUALISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

OTUS; OTUS SCOPS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 36749020516     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2007.9753573     Document Type: Article

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