Geographic Variation in Note Composition and Use of chick-a-dee Calls of Carolina Chickadees (Poecile carolinensis)

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 555-565

  Freeberg, Todd M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CALLING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; PASSERINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SELECTION;

CAROLINA; PUERTO RICO; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PARUS CAROLINENSIS;

EID: 84862077875     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02042.x     Document Type: Article

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