Singing in the moonlight: Dawn song performance of a diurnal bird varies with lunar phase

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  York, Jennifer E ^a,b   Young, Andrew J ^a   Radford, Andrew N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dawn chorus; Light pollution; Lunar cycle; Moon phase; Song; Twilight

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT POLLUTION; LUNAR PHASE; SIGNALING; SONG; SONGBIRD;

EID: 84893843174     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0970     Document Type: Article

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