Avian vocalisations: the female perspective

Females sing more often and at higher frequencies than males in Australian magpies

(2020) Mylène Dutour et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Birdsong learning is mutually beneficial for tutee and tutor in song sparrows

(2020) Michael D. Beecher et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Analysis of female song provides insight into the evolution of sex differences in a widely studied songbird

(2020) Matthew R. Wilkins et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Structure and functions of Yellow-breasted Boubou (Laniarius atroflavus) solos and duets

(2020) Amie Wheeldon et al.   PeerJ

Large female song repertoires and within‐pair song type sharing in a temperate breeding songbird

(2020) Jonathan G. Sikora et al.   ETHOLOGY

Song rate and duetting in the Chirruping Wedgebill (Psophodes cristatus): frequency, form and functions

(2019) Victoria I. Austin et al.   EMU

New insights from female bird song: towards an integrated approach to studying male and female communication roles

(2019) Katharina Riebel et al.   Biology Letters

Novel vocalizations, including song, from 2 female Cerulean Warblers (Setophaga cerulea)

(2019) Garrett J. MacDonald et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Characteristics of song, brain-anatomy and blood androgen levels in spontaneously singing female canaries

(2019) Meng-Ching Ko et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Developmental changes in song production in free-living male and female New Zealand bellbirds

(2018) Michelle M. Roper et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A call to document female bird songs: Applications for diverse fields

(2018) Karan J. Odom et al.   AUK

Plover parents care more for young of the opposite sex

(2018) Daniel Lees et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Male and female signaling behavior varies seasonally during territorial interactions in a tropical songbird

(2018) Alana D. Demko et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Female dark-eyed juncos Junco hyemalis thurberi produce male-like song in a territorial context during the early breeding season

(2018) Dustin G. Reichard et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Collective Action Promoted by Key Individuals

(2018) David Wheatcroft et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A new statistical method to test equivalence: an application in male and female eastern bluebird song

(2018) Evangeline M. Rose et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Components of variation in female common cuckoo calls

(2018) Zhuqing Deng et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Sexual selection and its evolutionary consequences in female animals

(2018) Robin M. Hare et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Female zebra finches do not sing yet share neural pathways necessary for singing in males

(2018) Derrick W. Shaughnessy et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Female vocalizations predict reproductive output in brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater)

(2018) Gregory Mark Kohn   PLoS One

Cooperative breeding influences the number and type of vocalizations in avian lineages

(2017) Gavin M. Leighton   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Female cuckoo calls misdirect host defences towards the wrong enemy

(2017) Jenny E. York et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Not just for males: females use song against male and female rivals in a temperate zone songbird

(2016) Cara A. Krieg et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Information warfare in avian families: sex-specific begging responses to need and social environment in canary nestlings

(2016) Nolwenn Fresneau et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The functions of vocal learning in parrots

(2016) Jack W. Bradbury et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Vocal communication regulates sibling competition over food stock

(2016) Amélie N. Dreiss et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Female in-nest chatter song increases predation

(2016) Sonia Kleindorfer et al.   Biology Letters

The Forebrain Song System Mediates Predictive Call Timing in Female and Male Zebra Finches

(2016) Jonathan I. Benichov et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Diversity and function of vocalisations in the cooperatively breeding Chestnut-crowned Babbler

(2016) Jodie M. S. Crane et al.   EMU

An investigation of sex differences in acoustic features in black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)chick-a-deecalls

(2016) Kimberley A. Campbell et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Reciprocal signaling in honeyguide-human mutualism

(2016) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   SCIENCE

Darwinian sex roles confirmed across the animal kingdom

(2016) T. Janicke et al.   Science Advances

Vocal repertoire of the New Zealand kea parrotNestor notabilis

(2016) Raoul Schwing et al.   Current Zoology

Can Nocturnal Flight Calls of the Migrating Songbird, American Redstart, Encode Sexual Dimorphism and Individual Identity?

(2016) Emily T. Griffiths et al.   PLoS One

Female and male song rates across breeding stage: testing for sexual and nonsexual functions of female song

(2015) Kristal E. Cain et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Developmental stress impairs a female songbird's behavioural and neural response to a sexually selected signal

(2015) Tara M. Farrell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Female calling? Song responses to conspecific call playbacks in nightingales, Luscinia megarhynchos

(2015) Silke Kipper et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Vocal complexity in the palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus)

(2015) C.N. Zdenek et al.   BIOACOUSTICS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SOUND AND ITS RECORDING

Vocal matching and intensity of begging calls are associated with a forebrain song circuit in a generalist brood parasite

(2015) Wan-Chun Liu et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Crying wolf to a predator: deceptive vocal mimicry by a bird protecting young

(2015) Branislav Igic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Gender identification using acoustic analysis in birds without external sexual dimorphism

(2015) Ilya A. Volodin et al.   Avian Research

Avian vocal mimicry: a unified conceptual framework

(2015) Anastasia H. Dalziell et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Vocal behavior of Great Curassows, a vulnerable Neotropical bird

(2015) Sarah Baldo et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Males respond to female begging signals of need: a handicapping experiment in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca

(2014) Alejandro Cantarero et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Context of female bias in song repertoire size, singing effort, and singing independence in a cooperatively breeding songbird

(2014) Anya E. Illes   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The evolution of vocal learning

(2014) Stephen Nowicki et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The vocal repertoire of the cooperatively breeding Apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea)

(2014) Miyako H. Warrington et al.   EMU

Temporal and environmental influences on the vocal behaviour of a nocturnal bird

(2014) Andrew Digby et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Female song is widespread and ancestral in songbirds

(2014) Karan J. Odom et al.   Nature Communications

Hissing calls improve survival in incubating female great tits (Parus major)

(2013) Indrikis Krams et al.   ACTA ETHOLOGICA

Social context and the lack of sexual dimorphism in song in an avian cooperative breeder

(2013) Julia A. Pilowsky et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Fidelity of vocal mimicry: identification and accuracy of mimicry of heterospecific alarm calls by the brown thornbill

(2013) Branislav Igic et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Female song in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus): Acoustic song features that contain individual identity information and sex differences

(2013) Allison H. Hahn et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Open-ended song learning in a hummingbird

(2013) M. Araya-Salas et al.   Biology Letters

When subspecies matter: resident Superb Fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus) distinguish the sex and subspecies of intruding birds

(2013) Sonia Kleindorfer et al.   EMU

The form and function of duets and choruses in Red-backed Fairy-wrens

(2013) Jenélle L. Dowling et al.   EMU

Vocal cooperation between the sexes in Little Spotted KiwiApteryx owenii

(2013) Andrew Digby et al.   IBIS

Kiwis to pewees: the value of studying bird calls

(2013) Lauryn Benedict et al.   IBIS

Anatomical bases of sex- and size-related acoustic variation in herring gull alarm calls

(2013) Loïc A. Hardouin et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Song learning in male and female Uraeginthus cyanocephalus, a tropical songbird species.

(2013) Nicole Geberzahn et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Brood Parasitism and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

(2013) W. E. Feeney et al.   SCIENCE

The functions of adult female begging during incubation in sub-Arctic breeding yellow warblers

(2012) S. Drew Moore et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Learned recognition of brood parasitic cuckoos in the superb fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus

(2012) N. E. Langmore et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Songs of two starling species: common traits versus adaptations to the social environment

(2012) C. Houdelier et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Sexual selection is a form of social selection

(2012) B. E. Lyon et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Female Song in the Common Yellowthroat

(2012) Conor C. Taff et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Parentally biased favouritism in relation to offspring sex in zebra finches

(2011) Mark C. Mainwaring et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Year-round resource defence and the evolution of male and female song in suboscine birds: social armaments are mutual ornaments

(2011) J. A. TOBIAS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The levels of analysis revisited

(2011) S. A. MacDougall-Shackleton   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Undirected (Solitary) Birdsong in Female and Male Blue-Capped Cordon-Bleus (Uraeginthus cyanocephalus) and Its Endocrine Correlates

(2011) Nicole Geberzahn et al.   PLoS One

Sequential polyandry by brood desertion increases female fitness in a bird with obligatory bi-parental care

(2010) Erkki Korpimäki et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A Quantitative Description of the Vocalizations and Vocal Activity of the Barred Owl

(2010) Karan J. Odom et al.   CONDOR

A Novel Context for Bird Song: Predator Calls Prompt Male Singing in the Kleptogamous Superb Fairy-wren, Malurus cyaneus

(2010) Naomi E. Langmore et al.   ETHOLOGY

Fertility Advertisement in Birds: a Means of Inciting Male-male Competition?

(2010) Robert Montgomerie et al.   ETHOLOGY

Functional Aspects of Singing in Male and Female Uraeginthus bengalus (Estrildidae)

(2010) Manfred Gahr et al.   ETHOLOGY

Black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli) contact call contains species, sex, and individual identity features

(2010) Lauren M. Guillette et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Reproductive competition promotes the evolution of female weaponry

(2010) N. L. Watson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fork-tailed drongos use deceptive mimicked alarm calls to steal food

(2010) T. Flower   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Signalling for food and sex? Begging by reproductive female white-throated magpie-jays

(2009) Jesse M.S. Ellis et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evolution and life-history correlates of female song in the New World blackbirds

(2009) J. Jordan Price   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Predators and the breeding bird: behavioral and reproductive flexibility under the risk of predation

(2009) Steven L. Lima   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Strategic Variation in Mobbing as a Front Line of Defense against Brood Parasitism

(2009) Justin A. Welbergen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Social organisation and foraging ecology of the cooperatively breeding Chestnut-crowned Babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps)

(2009) Dean J. Portelli et al.   EMU

Information Content in Chorus Songs of the Group-Living Australian Magpie (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis) in Western Australia

(2009) Myron C. Baker   ETHOLOGY

SIGNAL DESIGN AND PERCEPTION INHYPOCNEMISANTBIRDS: EVIDENCE FOR CONVERGENT EVOLUTION VIA SOCIAL SELECTION

(2009) Joseph A. Tobias et al.   EVOLUTION

Solos, duets and choruses: vocal behaviour of the Rufous-naped Wren (Campylorhynchus rufinucha), a cooperatively breeding neotropical songbird

(2009) David W. Bradley et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Variable Food Begging Calls Are Harbingers of Vocal Learning

(2009) Wan-chun Liu et al.   PLoS One

Mobbing calls signal predator category in a kin group-living bird species

(2009) M. Griesser   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A female songbird out-sings male conspecifics during simulated territorial intrusions

(2009) A. E Illes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sexual selection on aggressiveness in females: evidence from an experimental test with tree swallows

(2008) Kimberly A. Rosvall   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Coordination between the sexes for territorial defence in a duetting fairy-wren

(2008) Michelle L. Hall et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Sexual selection in females

(2008) Tim Clutton-Brock   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

VOCALIZATIONS OF THE NORTH ISLAND BROWN KIWI (APTERYX MANTELLI)

(2008) JEREMY CORFIELD et al.   AUK

Solo and duet calling in the pheasant coucal: sex and individual call differences in a nesting cuckoo with reversed size dimorphism

(2008) Golo Maurer et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

A comparative study of song form and duetting in neotropical Thryothorus wrens

(2008) Nigel Mann et al.   BEHAVIOUR

SEX-ROLE REVERSAL IN SONG? FEMALES SING MORE FREQUENTLY THAN MALES IN THE STREAK-BACKED ORIOLE

(2008) J. JORDAN PRICE et al.   CONDOR

Splendid songs: the vocal behaviour of Splendid Fairy-wrens (Malurus splendens melanotus)

(2008) Emma Greig et al.   EMU

Context, Structural Variability and Distinctiveness of California Towhee (Pipilo crissalis) Vocal Duets

(2008) Lauryn Benedict et al.   ETHOLOGY

THE LEARNING OF SONG PATTERNS BY BIRDS, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SONG OF THE CHAFFINCH FRINGILLA COELEBS

(2008) W. H. Thorpe   IBIS

Sexual dimorphism in the voice of the British Storm Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus

(2008) PAUL C. JAMES   IBIS

THE VOICE OF THE CHAFFINCH AND ITS FUNCTION AS A LANGUAGE

(2008) P. Marler   IBIS

Song characteristics and response to playback of male and female Robins Erithacus rubecula

(2008) A. RUS HOELZEL   IBIS

Can we measure the benefits of help in cooperatively breeding birds: the case of superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus?

(2008) Andrew Cockburn et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Bi-Directional Sexual Dimorphisms of the Song Control Nucleus HVC in a Songbird with Unison Song

(2008) Manfred Gahr et al.   PLoS One

Sex-specific responses to vocal convergence and divergence of contact calls in orange-fronted conures (Aratinga canicularis)

(2008) T. J.S Balsby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES