Dawn song in superb fairy-wrens: a bird that seeks extrapair copulations during the dawn chorus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 489-500

  Dalziell, Anastasia H ^a   Cockburn, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bird song; cooperative breeding; dawn chorus; extrapair copulation; Malurus cyaneus; superb fairy wren

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; DOMINANCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATE CHOICE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PASSERINE; SIGNALING; SONG; TRADE-OFF;

AVES; MALURUS CYANEUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 38649108837     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.05.014     Document Type: Article

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