No evidence of repeated song divergence across multiple urban and non-urban populations of dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis) in Southern California

F Wong, ES Diamant, M Walters… - Royal Society Open …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Urbanization can affect species communication by introducing new selection pressures,
such as noise pollution and different environmental transmission properties. These selection …

Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment

DG Reichard, JW Atwell, MM Pandit, GC Cardoso… - Animal Behaviour, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Animals in urban environments often produce higher-frequency
sounds.•Frequency differences of urban and rural birds persisted in a quiet, common …

On the existence and potential functions of low-amplitude vocalizations in North American birds

DG Reichard, JF Welklin - The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Research on acoustic communication has focused predominantly on high-amplitude, long-
range vocalizations that are easily recognized from a distance by the human ear. However …

Differential geographic patterns in song components of male Albert's lyrebirds

F Backhouse, AH Dalziell, RD Magrath… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Geographic variation in bird song has received much attention in evolutionary studies, yet
few consider components within songs that may be subject to different constraints and follow …

Female dark‐eyed juncos Junco hyemalis thurberi produce male‐like song in a territorial context during the early breeding season

DG Reichard, DE Brothers, SE George… - Journal of Avian …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Reports of female song, once considered a rarity, have recently increased across a variety of
avian taxa. Females of many species can be induced to produce male‐like song with …

Shared songs are of lower performance in the dark-eyed junco

GC Cardoso, JW Atwell - Royal Society Open Science, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Social learning enables the adjustment of behaviour to complex social and ecological tasks,
and underlies cultural traditions. Understanding when animals use social learning versus …