Supplemental feeding and dawn singing in black-capped chickadees

Condor

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 560-564

  Grava, Thibault ^a   Grava, Angélique ^a   Otter, Ken A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black capped Chickadee; Food supplementation; Honest advertisement; Poecile atricapillus; Song

Indexed keywords

AVES; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS;

EID: 70349546891     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2009.080061     Document Type: Article

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