Birdsong has been the subject of broad research from a variety of sub‐disciplines and has
taught us much about the evolution, function, and mechanisms driving animal …

Many songbird species have song repertoires divided into subsets of songs that are used in
different situations. The song systems—the species-typical patterns of song use—of these …

Animals produce vocalizations that range in complexity from a single repeated call to
hundreds of unique vocal elements patterned in sequences unfolding over hours …

A comprehensive illustrated guide to the Old World family of birds in the Helm Identification
series. Starlings range from familiar species such as Common Starling and Common Myna …

Song and brain structure are compared amongst 41 species of oscine birds by using the
method of independent evolutionary contrasts. We find a significant correlation between the …

The sexual responsiveness of female canaries, Serinus canaria, to six different types of male
song phrases extracted from natural song was tested. Copulation solicitation displays were …

This study had two aims. First, we looked at individual differences in song characteristics
between males of the European starling, and we related song behaviour to factors such as …

In the interdisciplinary tradition of Buckminster Fuller's work, Gregory Bateson's Mind and
Nature, and Fritjof Capra's Tao of Physics, Metapatterns embraces both nature and culture …

The study of bird song has made significant contributions to the develop-ment of modern
ethology (Konishi, 1985; Konishi, Emlen, Ricklefs, and Wingfield, 1989; Catchpole and …

Data from several field studies support the hypothesis that female European starlings,
Sturnus vulgaris, attend to variation among the songs of conspecific males when making …