Vocalizations and morphology: Interpreting the divergence among populations of Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax and Alpine Chough P. graculus

Bird Study

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 248-255

  Laiolo, Paola ^a,d   Rolando, Antonio ^a   Delestrade, Anne ^b   De Sanctis, Augusto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Ctr Rech Ecosystemes d'Altitude   (France)

^c c/o WWF Abruzzo   (Italy)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; PASSERINE; VOCALIZATION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

AVES; CORVIDA; PASSERIFORMES; PYRRHOCORAX GRACULUS; PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX;

EID: 7944226026     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650409461360     Document Type: Article

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