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ACTUALLY or potentially competing species exhibit “displacement patterns”, where various resources such as space, food or light are divided with little or no overlap. We wish to add to this list “broadcasting time”, the time available to territorial birds to advertise their assets, for we have found that the two commonest bird species in California chaparral sing largely out of phase with each other.
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CODY, M., BROWN, J. Song Asynchrony in Neighbouring Bird Species. Nature 222, 778–780 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222778b0
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