Fluttering wing feathers produce the flight sounds of male streamertail hummingbirds

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 341-344

  Clark, Christopher James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feather; Hummingbird; Mechanical sound; Red billed Streamertail; Sonation; Tail

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEATHER; LABORATORY METHOD; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEATHER; FLIGHT; HUMMINGBIRD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION;

AVES; TROCHILIDAE; TROCHILUS POLYTMUS;

EID: 46949097232     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0252     Document Type: Article

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