Individual distinctiveness in the mobbing call of a cooperative bird, the noisy miner Manorina melanocephala

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 481-490

  Kennedy, Robert A W ^a   Evans, Christopher S ^a   McDonald, Paul G ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CONSPECIFIC; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; PASSERINE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA;

EID: 70349507651     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2008.04682.x     Document Type: Article

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