A distinct reed bunting dawn song and its relation to extrapair paternity

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 473-480

  Suter, Stefan M ^a   Ermacora, David ^a   Rieille, Nadia ^a   Meyer, Dietrich R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

dawn chorus; dawn song; Emberiza schoeniclus; extrapair paternity; honest signal; reed bunting; sexual selection; song diversity; song rate; song type

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; DIEL VARIATION; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); MATE CHOICE; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG;

EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS;

EID: 58349094978     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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