Sex-specific timing of mate searching and territory prospecting in the nightingale: Nocturnal life of females

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1664, 2009, Pages 2045-2050

  Roth, Tobias ^a,b   Sprau, Philipp ^c,d   Schmidt, Rouven ^d,e   Naguib, Marc ^c,d   Amrhein, Valentin ^a,b  

^a Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dawn chorus; Nocturnal song; Signalling routines; Timing of prospecting

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DIEL VARIATION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE LOCATION; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SIGNALING; SONGBIRD; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGING; TELEMETRY;

AVES; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS;

EID: 66149172273     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1726     Document Type: Article

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