Solo and duet calling in the pheasant coucal: Sex and individual call differences in a nesting cuckoo with reversed size dimorphism

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 143-149

  Maurer, Golo ^a   Smith, Claire ^b   Süsser, Marc ^c   Magrath, Robert D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c Naturschutzbund Deutschland   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING; DIMORPHISM; NESTING; PARENTAL CARE; TAXONOMY; VOCALIZATION;

CENTROPUS PHASIANINUS; CUCULIDAE;

EID: 57349107713     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO08049     Document Type: Article

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