Learning the Hard Way: Imprinting Can Enhance Enforced Shifts in Habitat Choice

We investigated the potential importance of learning in habitat choice within a young hybrid zone of two closely related species of birds. Pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) are being excluded from deciduous habitats into a mixed forest type by collared flycatchers (F. albicollis). We investigate...

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Main Authors: Niclas Vallin, Anna Qvarnström
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:International Journal of Ecology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/287532