Identification of individual Eastern Screech-Owls Megascops asio via vocalization analysis

Bioacoustics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-140

  Nagy, Christopher M ^a,b,c   Rockwell, Robert F ^a,b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Mianus River Gorge Preserve   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Eastern Screech Owl; Megascops asio; Spectrograms; Vocalization analysis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANGE EXPANSION; RAPTOR; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; MEGASCOPS ASIO; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 84871290204     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2011.651829     Document Type: Article

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