Tuning towards tomorrow? Common nightingales Luscinia megarhynchos change and increase their song repertoires from the first to the second breeding season

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 231-236

  Kiefer, Sarah ^a   Sommer, Christina ^a   Scharff, Constance ^a   Kipper, Silke ^a   Mundry, Roger ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BREEDING SEASON; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

AVES; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; PASSERI;

EID: 63049104668     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04500.x     Document Type: Article

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