Avian vocalisations: the female perspective

VI Austin, AH Dalziell, NE Langmore… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research on avian vocalisations has traditionally focused on male song produced by oscine
passerines. However, accumulating evidence indicates that complex vocalisations can …

A call to document female bird songs: Applications for diverse fields

KJ Odom, L Benedict - The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Research on bird song has contributed to important advances in diverse biological fields
from neurobiology to conservation biology. Bird song has traditionally been studied as an …

Not just for males: females use song against male and female rivals in a temperate zone songbird

CA Krieg, T Getty - Animal Behaviour, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•We measured singing by female house wrens during nest visits and during a
playback experiment.•Song was common at the start of egg laying when conspecifics …

Acoustic fine structure may encode biologically relevant information for zebra finches

NH Prior, E Smith, S Lawson, GF Ball, RJ Dooling - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The ability to discriminate changes in the fine structure of complex sounds is well developed
in birds. However, the precise limit of this discrimination ability and how it is used in the …

Typical males and unconventional females: songs and singing behaviors of a tropical, duetting oriole in the breeding and non-breeding season

KJ Odom, KE Omland, DR McCaffrey… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Recent research emphasizes that female song is evolutionarily important, yet there are still
few species for which we have quantified the similarities and differences between male and …

Similarities in composition and transformations of songs by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) over time and space.

E Mercado III, CE Perazio - Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The complex songs produced by humpback whales have been cited as evidence of
prodigious memory, innovativeness, sophisticated auditory scene analysis, vocal imitation …

Female song is structurally different from male song in Orchard Orioles, a temperate-breeding songbird with delayed plumage maturation

M Moyer, E Rose, DJ Moreland, A Raza… - Journal of Field …, 2022 - journal.afonet.org
Female birds in many temperate species are thought to sing reduced or quieter songs and
appear to sing less often than their male counterparts. Therefore, female song may be easily …

The impact of anthropogenic noise on individual identification via female song in Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)

C Montenegro, WD Service, EN Scully, SK Mischler… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
When anthropogenic noise occurs simultaneously with an acoustic signal or cue, it can be
difficult for an animal to interpret the information encoded within vocalizations. However …

q PCR‐based molecular sexing by copy number variation in r RNA genes and its utility for sex identification in soft‐shell turtles

R Literman, D Badenhorst… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Sex diagnosis is important in ecology, evolution, conservation biology, medicine, and food
production. However, sex diagnosis is difficult in species without conspicuous sexual …

Guess who? Evaluating individual acoustic monitoring for males and females of the Tawny Pipit, a migratory passerine bird with a simple song

J Oñate-Casado, M Porteš, V Beran, A Petrusek… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Individual acoustic monitoring (IAM), based on the analysis of vocal cues, is particularly
suitable for the identification and tracking of birds with temporally stable song or call …