California towhee vocal duets are multi-functional signals for multiple receivers

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 953-978

  Benedict, Lauryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic signals; Birdsong; California towhee; Pair bond; Pipilo crissalis; Vocal duets

Indexed keywords

AVES; PIPILO CRISSALIS;

EID: 77953195619     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X498633     Document Type: Article

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