Song repertoire size correlates with measures of body size in Eurasian blackbirds

Behaviour

Volumn 149, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 645-665

  Hesler, Nana ^a   Mundry, Roger ^b   Sacher, Thomas ^c   Coppack, Timothy ^c,d   Bairlein, Franz ^c   Dabelsteen, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^d Institute of Applied Ecology   (Germany)

Author keywords

bird song; body measures; Eurasian blackbird; honest signal; male quality; repertoire size; sexual selection; Turdus merula

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872223860     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853912X649920     Document Type: Article

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