Site specificity in advertisement calls and responses to playbacks of local and foreign call variants in satin bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 831-841

  Nicholls, James A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Call variation; Geographic variation; Playbacks; Ptilonorhynchus; Satin bowerbird

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT TYPE; LEARNING; PASSERINE; SPATIAL VARIATION; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; PTILONORHYNCHUS; PTILONORHYNCHUS VIOLACEUS;

EID: 39049136574     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0509-9     Document Type: Article

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