Limited adult vocal learning maintains call dialects but permits pair-distinctive calls in red crossbills

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1303-1311

  Sewall, Kendra B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

call; Loxia curvirostra; red crossbill; vocal learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CALLING BEHAVIOR; COMMON ANCESTRY; CONSPECIFIC; DIVERGENCE; ISOLATED POPULATION; LEARNING; PASSERINE; SIGNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; LOXIA; LOXIA CURVIROSTRA;

EID: 64549152425     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.033     Document Type: Article

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