scholarly journals Song sharing in the pied bush chat (Saxicola caprata)

2020 ◽  
Vol 144 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinaya Kumar Sethi ◽  
Dinesh Bhatt ◽  
Amit Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Passerine Bird ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
Tropical Species ◽  
Song Repertoire ◽  
Song Sharing ◽  
Male Song ◽  
Song Types

In most oscine passerine bird species, male song is composed of different song types of which some are shared with other males. Our aim for this study was to investigate whether song sharing occurs in the pied bush chat (a tropical species with multiple song types), and if so, whether neighbouring males share significantly more song types than non-neighbouring males and whether song sharing declines with increasing distance between males. A standard song sharing index was used to compare all song types of each male with all song types of all other males. Males had a mean repertoire of 22.8±4.4 song types ranging from 17 to 30 song types. Results revealed that neighbouring males shared significantly more song types than did non-neighbouring males. Nevertheless, no two males shared all song types in their repertoires. Furthermore, we observed a significant decline in the proportion of song repertoire shared with increasing distance between males. Results confirm the presence of song sharing in the pied bush chat, which may help neighbouring males to mediate social relationships.

Male and female song structure and singing behaviour in the duetting eastern whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus

2005 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy C. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Bird Species ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Song Repertoire ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Selective Pressures ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Paired Female ◽  
Song Types

In many tropical bird species, partners combine their songs to form precise duets, of which the function is imperfectly understood. Duet structure and sex differences in vocal strategies may be important indicators of different selective pressures that have led to the evolution and maintenance of these complex acoustic displays. This study examines the singing behaviour of a population of the eastern whipbird, a bird that forms antiphonal duets initiated exclusively by the male. In all, 7% of duets recorded were between a paired female and a male other than her social partner. Males sang more often than females, their songs were longer and moved through a wider frequency range, and they had a larger song repertoire. Females sang two types of song: response songs, used primarily in a duet context, and structurally distinct solo songs, typically used during interactions with other females. Eastern whipbirds lacked unique song types among the repertoires of individual males and females. Males and females combined songs non-randomly to produce specific duets that were shared across the population. Results suggested that song and duet type matching might play an important role in intrasex interactions, such as defence of a territory, or a partner, from same-sex intruders.

scholarly journals Song Sharing by Yellow Warblers Differs Between two Modes of Singing: Implications for Song Function

The Condor ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin D. Beebee
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relationship ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Song Type ◽  
Type I ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Dendroica Petechia ◽  
Song Repertoire ◽  
Song Sharing ◽  
Yellow Warblers ◽  
Song Types

Abstract I investigated the pattern of song sharing for the two singing modes (Type I and Type II) of Yellow Warblers (Dendroica petechia). There is indirect evidence that males use Type I singing to attract females, and Type II singing to interact with other males, but how males use these singing modes for these functions is unknown. One way in which males might use Type II singing to interact with neighboring males is through the use of “shared songs:” males might preferentially sing songs they share with neighboring males to engage in song type matching or repertoire matching. I tested the prediction that Yellow Warblers should share more of their Type II songs with neighbors compared to non-neighbors, but that there should be no such relationship for Type I songs. I found that males in a Pennsylvania population shared significantly more of their Type II song repertoire with neighbors than with non-neighbors, and that sharing between males declined with distance between their territories. There was no spatial relationship for sharing Type I song types. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that Yellow Warblers use Type II singing to interact with other males using strategies such as song type and repertoire matching. Dendroica petechia Comparte sus Cantos de Dos Modos Diferentes: Implicancias para la Función del Canto Resumen. Investigué el modo en que Dendroica petechia comparte sus cantos en relación a dos maneras de cantar (Tipo I y Tipo II). Existe evidencia indirecta que los machos usan cantos de Tipo I para atraer a las hembras y cantos de Tipo II para interactuar con otros machos, pero se desconoce cómo los machos usan estos cantos para estas funciones. Una manera en la que los machos podrían usar cantos de Tipo II para interactuar con machos vecinos es a través del uso de “canciones compartidas:” los machos podrían preferentemente cantar canciones que comparten con machos vecinos para establecer el uso de un tipo de canción o repertorio semejante. Puse a prueba la predicción que D. petechia debería compartir una mayor parte de sus canciones de Tipo II con machos vecinos que con no-vecinos, pero que no debería existir esta relación para canciones de Tipo I. Encontré que los machos de una población de Pensilvania comparten una parte significativamente mayor de su repertorio de canciones de Tipo II con vecinos que con no-vecinos, y que el grado en que los machos comparten canciones disminuye con la distancia entre sus territorios. No hubo una relación espacial en los tipos de canciones compartidas de Tipo I. Estos resultados son consistentes con la hipótesis que D. petechia usa canciones de Tipo II como estrategia para interactuar con otros machos empleando tipo de canciones o repertorios semejantes.

scholarly journals Female song in the Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Patchett ◽  
Alexander N. G. Kirschel ◽  
Joanna Robins King ◽  
Patrick Styles ◽  
Will Cresswell
Keyword(s):  
Breeding Season ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Breeding Period ◽  
Territorial Defence ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Male Song ◽  
Female Song ◽  
Mate Acquisition

AbstractFemale song is widespread across bird species yet rarely reported. Here, we report the first observations and description of female song in the Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca and compare it to male song through the breeding season. Twenty-five percent of colour-ringed females were observed singing at least once, predominantly in April, compared to 71% of males that continued singing through the breeding period. We suggest that female song may have multiple functions in this species, but it may be especially important in territorial defence and mate acquisition.

scholarly journals Limited reproductive impairment in a passerine bird species exposed along a perfluoroalkyl acid (PFAA) pollution gradient

2019 ◽  
Vol 652 ◽  
pp. 718-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thimo Groffen ◽  
Robin Lasters ◽  
Ana Lopez-Antia ◽  
Els Prinsen ◽  
Lieven Bervoets ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bird Species ◽  
Passerine Bird ◽  
Pollution Gradient ◽  
Reproductive Impairment ◽  
Perfluoroalkyl Acid

scholarly journals The Duet Code of the Female Black-Bellied Wren

The Condor ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Logue
Keyword(s):  
Animal Communication ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Song Type ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Female Response ◽  
Male Song ◽  
Vocal Responses ◽  
Vocal Signals ◽  
Behavioral Mechanisms ◽  
Song Types

Abstract In many duet-singing songbirds, paired birds combine their song types nonrandomly to form duet songs. Several different behavioral mechanisms could generate nonrandom song type associations in duets. I tested female Black-bellied Wrens (Thryothorus fasciatoventris) for one such mechanism: adherence to a set of rules linking female response songs to male stimulus songs. I call this set of rules a “duet code.” Duets of free-living Black-bellied Wrens were recorded in 2001 and 2002. In 2003 I returned to the same territories and played the male song types from the recorded duets. Females answered male song stimuli as if duetting with the playback speaker. Although the known repertoires of females averaged 8.4 song types, each female sang only a single song type in response to each male song type. Random answering could not account for this pattern, supporting the hypothesis that females abide by duet codes. Females that were still paired with their mates from 2001–2002 answered 100% of their mate's songs with the same song types they had used previously, demonstrating that codes are stable over time. In contrast, females that were new to a territory answered an average of only 18% of their mate's song types with the same song type as the previous female, indicating that duet codes are individually distinctive. Duet participation by female Black-bellied Wrens represents a special kind of animal communication, in which discrete vocal signals consistently elicit discrete vocal responses according to an individually distinctive set of rules.

Winter Ecological Energetics of 2 Passerine Bird Species in Temperate Wet Forest

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 319 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Haylock ◽  
a Lill
Keyword(s):  
Bird Species ◽  
Metabolic Cost ◽  
Passerine Bird ◽  
Foraging Efficiency ◽  
Energy Budgets ◽  
Similar Time ◽  
Energy Expenditures ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Temperate Birds ◽  
Winter Time

Autumn and winter time-energy budgets were constructed for brown thornbills, Acanthiza pusilla, and eastern yellow robins, Eopsaltria australis, inhabiting a temperate wet forest in south-eastern Australia. Birds spent 84-88% of daylight hours foraging in both seasons, but decreased the metabolic cost of other activity in winter by spending more time on energetically inexpensive behaviours. Estimated daily energy expenditures were either seasonally constant or increased (thornbill) or decreased (robin) in winter by no nore than l0%, depending on the assumed degree of substitution for the thermoregulatory requirement. Thornbills increased foraging efficiency in winter to compensate for the reduction in absolute foraging time. Less dramatic changes in behavioural strategies were required to achieve energy balance than have been recorded for many small north temperate birds. Brown thornbills used an energetically expensive, active search foraging technique to capture small, cryptic prey at a fast rate. Yellow robins employed an inexpensive, 'sit-and-wait' strategy to capture larger, more conspicuous prey at a slower rate. Both species had similar time investments in foraging, but allocated greatly differing proportions of energy to active foraging and resting alert. These contrasting strategies offer the potential for performing several activities simultaneously in the yellow robin and for reducing foraging and vigilance investments through exploiting gregariousness in the brown thornbill.

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