Note types and coding in parid vocalizations. II: The chick-a-dee call of the mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli)

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 780-793

  Bloomfield, Laurie L ^a   Charrier, Isabelle ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIODIVERSITY; FREQUENCIES; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC CUES; BIRDS; CALL NOTES; VOCALIZATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CALLING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PARUS GAMBELI; PASSERIFORMES; POECILE; POECILE GAMBELI;

EID: 4544296514     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z04-046     Document Type: Article

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