Eye size in birds and the timing of song at dawn

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1493, 2002, Pages 831-837

  Thomas, Robert J ^a   Székely, Tamás ^a   Cuthill, Innes C ^a   Harper, David G C ^a   Newson, Stuart E ^a   Frayling, Tim D ^a   Wallis, Paul D ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dawn chorus; Eye size; Light intensity; Song; Songbirds

Indexed keywords

EYE; LIGHT INTENSITY; SONG; SONGBIRD; VISION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING; HYPOTHESIS; LIGHT INTENSITY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EYE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOPERIOD; SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 53149093272     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1941     Document Type: Article

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