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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Baptista, Luis F.,; Beecher, Michael D.,; Brenowitz, Eliot A.,; Bretagnolle, Vincent,; Budney, Gregory F.,; Dabelsteen, Torben,; Dooling, Robert J.,; Falls, J. Bruce,; Farabaugh, Susan M.,; Gaunt, Sandra L. L.,; Grotke, Robert W.,; Hailman, Jack P.,; Horn, Andrew G.,; Hultsch, Henrike,; King, Andrew,; Klump, Georg M.,; Kroodsma, Donald E.,; Lambrechts, Marcel M.,; Lynch, Alejandro,; Martens, Jochen,; McGregor, Peter K.,; Miller, Edward H.,; Morton, Eugene S.,; Otter, Ken,; Payne, Robert B.,; Ranft, Richard,; Ratcliffe, Laurene,; Searcy, William A.,; Sigler Ficken, Millicent,; Smith, W. John,; Spector, David A.,; Staicer, Cynthia A.,; Stiles, F. Gary,; Stoddard, Philip Kraft,; Todt, Dietmar,; Veprintseva, Olga D.,; Vielliard, Jacques M. E.,; West, Meredith,; Yasukawa, Ken,
• HerausgeberIn: Kroodsma, Donald E.,; Miller, Edward H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.) :; 70 halftones, 15 tables.

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.

Table of 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 -- 2. Eco-gen-actics: A Systems Approach to the Ontogeny of Avian Communication -- 3. Nature and Its Nurturing in Avian Vocal Development -- 4. Birdsong Learning in the Laboratory and Field -- 5. Acquisition and Performance of Song Repertoires: Ways of Coping with Diversity and Versatility -- 6. Acoustic Communication in Parrots: Laboratory and Field Studies of Budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus -- PART II. VOCAL REPERTOIRES -- Introduction -- 7. Categorization and the Design of Signals: The Case of Song Repertoires -- 8. Comparative Analysis of Vocal Repertoires, with Reference to Chickadees -- 9. Acoustic Communication in a Group of Nonpasserine Birds, the Petrels -- PART III. VOCAL VARIATION IN TIME AND SPACE -- Introduction -- 10. The Population Memetics of Birdsong -- 11. Song Traditions in Indigo Buntings: Origin, Improvisation, Dispersal, and Extinction in Cultural Evolution -- 12. Vocalizations and Speciation of Palearctic Birds -- 13. Acoustic Differentiation and Speciation in Shorebirds -- 14. A Comparison of Vocal Behavior among Tropical and Temperate Passerine Birds -- 15. Study of Bird Sounds in the Neotropics: Urgency and Opportunity -- PART IV. CONTROL AND RECOGNITION OF VOCALIZATIONS -- Introduction -- 16. The Neuroethology of Birdsong -- 17. Organization of Birdsong and Constraints on Performance -- 18. Bird Communication in the Noisy World -- 19. Sex Differences in Song Recognition -- 20. Vocal Recognition of Neighbors by Territorial Passerines -- PART V. THE BEHAVIOR OF COMMUNICATING -- Introduction -- 21. Using Interactive Playback to Study How Songs and Singing Contribute to Communication about Behavior -- 22. Dynamic Acoustic Communication and Interactive Playback -- 23. Communication Networks -- 24. The Dawn Chorus and Other Diel Patterns in Acoustic Signaling -- 25. Song and Female Choice -- Appendix. Natural Sound Archives: Guidance for Recordists and a Request for Cooperation -- Literature Cited -- Subject Index -- Taxonomic Index