Repertoire sizes of the whistle and trill parts of the song of the grey thrush Turdus cardis in relation to the mating success of the males

Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 83-89

  Ishizuka, Toru ^a,b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grey Thrush; Polygyny; Song repertoire size; Trill; Turdus cardis

Indexed keywords

AVES; TURDUS CARDIS;

EID: 79952831756     PISSN: 13485032     EISSN: 18820999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3312/jyio.40.83     Document Type: Article

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