Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds / Donald E. Kroodsma, Edward H. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kroodsma, Donald E., Editor.

Miller, Edward H., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature Guides & Natural History.

Ornithology.

Local Subjects:

Nature Guides & Natural History.

Ornithology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (608 p.) : 70 halftones, 15 tables,

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [1996]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Birds provide model system in which to study acoustic communication. For example, the variation in developmental programs among species and among different vocalizations within species has inspired studies of the interaction between genetic and environmental factors in producing sounds, the restriction of learning to sensitive phrases, and the transmission of vocal traditions in songbirds.With song often serving dual strategies of territorial defense and female attraction, studies using playback techniques have shown how birds interact, demostrating differences between males and females in the perception of sounds, and indicated how females might choose males on the basis of sound. Bird ong has also been a model system for understanding the interaction of neural and hormonal systems in the acquisition and control of learned sounds.The editors of this volume approached the most distinguished authorities in avian acoustic communication and asked each to describe particularly exciting topics for current and future research. Their responses comprise a comprehensive reference on bird behavior and animal communication.

Contents:

Frontmatter

We dedicate this book to the memory of Theodore A. Parker III

CONTENTS

Preface

Contributors

Nomenclature

PART I. DEVELOPMENT

Introduction

1. Ecology of Passerine Song Development / Kroodsma, Donald E.

2. Eco-gen-actics: A Systems Approach to the Ontogeny of Avian Communication / West, Meredith / King, Andrew

3. Nature and Its Nurturing in Avian Vocal Development / Baptista, Luis F.

4. Birdsong Learning in the Laboratory and Field / Beecher, Michael D.

5. Acquisition and Performance of Song Repertoires: Ways of Coping with Diversity and Versatility / Todt, Dietmar / Hultsch, Henrike

6. Acoustic Communication in Parrots: Laboratory and Field Studies of Budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus / Farabaugh, Susan M. / Dooling, Robert J.

PART II. VOCAL REPERTOIRES

7. Categorization and the Design of Signals: The Case of Song Repertoires / Horn, Andrew G. / Falls, J. Bruce

8. Comparative Analysis of Vocal Repertoires, with Reference to Chickadees / Hailman, Jack P. / Sigler Ficken, Millicent

9. Acoustic Communication in a Group of Nonpasserine Birds, the Petrels / Bretagnolle, Vincent

PART III. VOCAL VARIATION IN TIME AND SPACE

10. The Population Memetics of Birdsong / Lynch, Alejandro

11. Song Traditions in Indigo Buntings: Origin, Improvisation, Dispersal, and Extinction in Cultural Evolution / Payne, Robert B.

12. Vocalizations and Speciation of Palearctic Birds / Martens, Jochen

13. Acoustic Differentiation and Speciation in Shorebirds / Miller, Edward H.

14. A Comparison of Vocal Behavior among Tropical and Temperate Passerine Birds / Morton, Eugene S.

15. Study of Bird Sounds in the Neotropics: Urgency and Opportunity / Kroodsma, Donald E. / Vielliard, Jacques M. E. / Stiles, F. Gary

PART IV. CONTROL AND RECOGNITION OF VOCALIZATIONS

16. The Neuroethology of Birdsong / Brenowitz, Eliot A. / Kroodsma, Donald E.

17. Organization of Birdsong and Constraints on Performance / Lambrechts, Marcel M.

18. Bird Communication in the Noisy World / Klump, Georg M.

19. Sex Differences in Song Recognition / Ratcliffe, Laurene / Otter, Ken

20. Vocal Recognition of Neighbors by Territorial Passerines / Stoddard, Philip Kraft

PART V. THE BEHAVIOR OF COMMUNICATING

21. Using Interactive Playback to Study How Songs and Singing Contribute to Communication about Behavior / Smith, W. John

22. Dynamic Acoustic Communication and Interactive Playback / Dabelsteen, Torben / McGregor, Peter K.

23. Communication Networks / McGregor, Peter K. / Dabelsteen, Torben

24. The Dawn Chorus and Other Diel Patterns in Acoustic Signaling / Staicer, Cynthia A. / Spector, David A. / Horn, Andrew G.

25. Song and Female Choice / Searcy, William A. / Yasukawa, Ken

Appendix. Natural Sound Archives: Guidance for Recordists and a Request for Cooperation / Kroodsma, Donald E. / Budney, Gregory F. / Grotke, Robert W. / Vielliard, Jacques M. E. / Gaunt, Sandra L. L. / Ranft, Richard / Veprintseva, Olga D.

Literature Cited

Subject Index

Taxonomic Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3695-7

OCLC:

1143827587