• DOI:10.1007/s10336-011-0775-1
Corpus ID: 1093702

Characteristics of male Spot-bellied Bobwhite (Colinus leucopogon) song during territory establishment

@article{Sandoval2011CharacteristicsOM,
  title={Characteristics of male Spot-bellied Bobwhite (Colinus leucopogon) song during territory establishment},
  author={L. Sandoval and G. Barrantes},
  journal={Journal of Ornithology},
  year={2011},
  volume={153},
  pages={547-554}
}

• L. Sandoval, G. Barrantes
• Published 2011
• Biology
• Journal of Ornithology

AbstractIn song-learning birds, male song shows a large inter-individual variation that frequently plays an important role in intra- and inter-sexual selection. In other bird groups, such as Galliformes, song learning is absent, and inter-individual song variation is small and expected to play a minor, if any, role in sexual contexts. In the Spot-bellied Bobwhite (Colinus leucopogon) we found that many males have a unique set of song features, and our results suggest that female mate choice in… Expand

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