Effects of rapid broadband trills on responses to song overlapping in nightingales

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 300-308

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

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; MALE BEHAVIOR; SIGNALING; SONG; SONGBIRD; SYNERGISM; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; PASSERI;

EID: 77951220241     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01743.x     Document Type: Article

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