The ecology and behavior of chickadees and titmice : an integrated approach / editor, Ken A. Otter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Otter, Ken A.

Series:

Oxford ornithology series.

Oxford ornithology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chickadees--Behavior.

Chickadees.

Chickadees--Ecology.

Titmice--Behavior.

Titmice.

Titmice--Ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chickadees and titmice are among the most popular birds in North America, due in large part to their readiness to use bird feeders, to nest in urban gardens, and even to be trained to take food from people's hands. These attributes have also made them (and their Eurasian tit counterparts) perhaps the most intensively studied bird family in the world. Long-term research in Europe has yielded some of the most comprehensive data on the impact of global warming on the breeding ecologyof birds. Chickadees have amongst the best-studied and most complex vocal behaviour of any bird species, displaying

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; 1 Introduction to the North American Paridae; Section I: Proximate mechanisms in behavior and evolution; 2 Neurobiology of spatial behavior; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Food storing in the Paridae; 2.3 The hippocampus; 2.4 Summary and conclusions; 3 The relationship between environment, corticosterone, food caching, spatial memory, and the hippocampus in chickadees; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Inter- and intraspecific differences in caching, spatial memory, and the hippocampus

3.3 Unpredictable food, corticosterone, spatial memory, and the hippocampus3.4 Corticosterone, food caching, spatial memory, and the hippocampus; 3.5 Dominance, corticosterone, spatial memory, and the hippocampus; 3.6 Conclusions; 4 Photoperiodism and the annual cycle of black-capped chickadees; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Annual cycle of black-capped chickadees; 4.3 Photoperiodism and reproduction in black-capped chickadees; 4.4 Seasonal changes in song and the song-control system; 4.5 Seasonal changes in food storing and the hippocampus; 4.6 Future directions

5 Fine-scale variation in the timing of reproduction in titmice and chickadees5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The history of research on reproductive timing: Lack 1966; 5.3 Causes of fine-scale variation in timing among individuals; 5.4 Effects of fine-scale variation in timing; 5.5 Consequences of long-term climatic variation on reproductive timing; 5.6 Reproductive timing in males; 5.7 Conclusions; Synopsis I: Proximate mechanisms in behavior and evolution; Section II: Reproductive ecology, evolution, and behavior; 6 Phylogeography of chestnut-backed chickadees in western North America

6.1 Introduction6.2 Chestnut-backed chickadees; 6.3 Patterns of contemporary population structure; 6.4 Factors influencing population genetics of Parids; 6.5 Conclusions and perspectives; 7 Behavioral aspects of chickadee hybridization; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Background and methods; 7.3 Results; 7.4 Discussion; 7.5 Hybridization throughout the Paridae; 7.6 Future directions; 8 Life in the small-bodied cavity-nester guild: Demography of sympatric mountain and black-capped chickadees within nest web communities under changing habitat conditions; 8.1 Introduction

8.2 Study area and habitat change8.3 Data analysis; 9 Social dominance and fitness in black-capped chickadees; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 General methods; 9.3 Correlates of social rank; 9.4 Hierarchy formation and maintenance; 9.5 Variation in rank acquisition; 9.6 Rank, survival, and lifetime reproductive success; 9.7 Future research; Synopsis II: Parid reproductive behavior; Section III: Vocal communication; 10 Chickadee vocal production and perception: An integrative approach to understanding acoustic communication; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Song production and perception

10.3 Call production and perception

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ISBN:

9786611160357

1-281-16035-0

0-19-152460-3

1-4294-7045-3

OCLC:

137242088