The dusk chorus from an owl perspective: eagle owls vocalize when their white throat badge contrasts most.

BACKGROUND: An impressive number of studies have investigated bird vocal displays, and many of them have tried to explain the widespread phenomenon of the so-called dawn and dusk chorus, the sunrise and sunset peaks in bird song output. As many as twelve non-exclusive hypotheses have been proposed t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vincenzo Penteriani, Maria del Mar Delgado
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2662407?pdf=render