The Anna's hummingbird chirps with its tail: A new mechanism of sonation in birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1637, 2008, Pages 955-962

  Clark, Christopher James ^a   Feo, Teresa J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calypte anna; Display; Hummingbird; Mechanical sound; Sonation; Tail feather

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; DIVING BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; PLUMAGE; SONGBIRD; SOUND PROPAGATION; TAIL FEATHER; VIDEOGRAPHY; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEATHER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TAIL; VIDEORECORDING; VOCALIZATION;

ANNA; AVES; CALYPTE ANNA;

EID: 40049083534     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1619     Document Type: Article

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