title: Early experience determines song dialect responsiveness of female sparrows.
abstract: In a laboratory experiment, female white-crowned sparrows responded almost exclusively to male songs taken from their home dialect region and usually not to songs taken from an alien dialect region. Song dialect populations may represent a level of genetic population structure below that of the subspecies and may play an important role in songbird evolution.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Baker
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Spitler-Nabors
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Bradley