Calibration of song learning targets during vocal ontogeny in swamp sparrows, Melospiza georgiana

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 929-940

  Podos, Jeffrey ^a   Peters, Susan ^b   Nowicki, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; ONTOGENY; SONG; SONGBIRD;

AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA GEORGIANA; PASSERI; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 5344232777     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.11.018     Document Type: Article

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