The Effect of Nest Acoustics on the Begging Calls of Nestling Tree Swallows

Animals’ long-distance acoustic signal structure minimizes habitat-specific attenuation and distortion, but it is unknown how environmental acoustics shape the signals of dependent young, or short-range signals generally. I investigated the influence of the nest environment on nestling tree swallows...

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Main Author: Fairhurst, Elizabeth
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13135