Note types and coding in Parid vocalizations: The chick-a-dee call of the boreal chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3327-3340

  Moscicki, Michele K ^a   Hoeschele, Marisa ^a   Bloomfield, Laurie L ^a   Modanu, Maria ^a   Charrier, Isabelle ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABILITY; FREQUENCY MEASURES; PARID VOCALIZATIONS; POTENTIAL FEATURES; TEMPORAL FEATURES;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79959579220     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3560925     Document Type: Article

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