Acoustic mechanisms of a species-based discrimination of the chick-a-dee call in sympatric black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadees (p. gambeli)

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue DEC, 2010, Pages

  Guillette, Lauren M ^a   Farrell, Tara M ^a,b   Hoeschele, Marisa ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black capped chickadee; Chick a dee call; Mountain chickadee; Operant conditioning; Songbird vocalization; Species discrimination; Sympatric

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959606095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00229     Document Type: Article

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