Seasonal and diurnal patterns of black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) vocal production

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-155

  Avey, Marc T ^a   Quince, Aaron F ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black capped chickadee; Diurnal; Seasonal; Vocal production

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL ACTIVITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SONG; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT REFRACTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SEASON; SONGBIRD; SPRING; WINTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LIGHT; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

APOIDEA; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS;

EID: 39149114726     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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