Avian vocal mimicry: a unified conceptual framework

A songbird mimics different heterospecific alarm calls in response to different types of threat

(2014) Branislav Igic et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Vocal Mimicry of Alarm-Associated Sounds by a Drongo Elicits Flee and Mobbing Responses from Other Species that Participate in Mixed-Species Bird Flocks

(2014) Eben Goodale et al.   ETHOLOGY

Quantifying Vocal Mimicry in the Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo: A Comparison of Automated Methods and Human Assessment

(2014) Samira Agnihotri et al.   PLoS One

Deception by Flexible Alarm Mimicry in an African Bird

(2014) T. P. Flower et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2013) Branislav Igic et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The frequency of vocal mimicry associated with danger varies due to proximity to nest and nesting stage in a passerine bird

(2013) Eben Goodale et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Understanding Mimicry - with Special Reference to Vocal Mimicry

(2013) Wolfgang Wickler   ETHOLOGY

Perspectives and Debates: Mimicry, Signalling and Co-Evolution (Commentary on Wolfgang Wickler - Understanding Mimicry - With special reference to vocal mimicry)

(2013) Tomáš Grim   ETHOLOGY

Interspecific song imitation by a Prairie Warbler

(2013) Bruce E. Byers et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

The Causes and Evolutionary Consequences of Mixed Singing in Two Hybridizing Songbird Species (Luscinia spp.)

(2013) Jana Vokurková et al.   PLoS One

Learning and signal copying facilitate communication among bird species

(2013) D. Wheatcroft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Alarming features: birds use specific acoustic properties to identify heterospecific alarm calls

(2013) P. M. Fallow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Imperfect Mimicry and the Limits of Natural Selection

(2013) David W. Kikuchi et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

How Reliable Is Song Learning Accuracy as a Signal of Male Early Condition?

(2012) R. F. Lachlan et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Fooling the experts: accurate vocal mimicry in the song of the superb lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae

(2012) Anastasia H. Dalziell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Learning to listen? Nestling response to heterospecific alarm calls

(2012) Tonya M. Haff et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Eavesdropping on the neighbours: fledglings learn to respond to heterospecific alarm calls

(2012) Tonya M. Haff et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Interspecific interactions drive cultural co-evolution and acoustic convergence in syntopic species

(2012) Paola Laiolo   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Vocal mimicry in spotted bowerbirds is associated with an alarming context

(2012) Laura A. Kelley et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Host-parasite coevolution beyond the nestling stage? Mimicry of host fledglings by the specialist screaming cowbird

(2012) M. C. De Marsico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Is the Evolution of Inaccurate Mimicry a Result of Selection by a Suite of Predators? A Case Study Using Myrmecomorphic Spiders

(2011) Stano Pekár et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Comment on Boogert et al.: mate choice for cognitive traits or cognitive traits for mate choice?

(2011) K. Riebel   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Commentary on review by Boogert et al.: some problems facing females

(2011) J. R. Madden et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Female assessment: cheap tricks or costly calculations?

(2011) T. W. Fawcett et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

A parasite in wolf's clothing: hawk mimicry reduces mobbing of cuckoos by hosts

(2011) Justin A. Welbergen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Antipredator calls of tufted titmice and interspecific transfer of encoded threat information

(2011) Stacia A. Hetrick et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Mate choice for cognitive traits: a review of the evidence in nonhuman vertebrates

(2011) N. J. Boogert et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Sound familiar? Acoustic similarity provokes responses to unfamiliar heterospecific alarm calls

(2011) Pamela M. Fallow et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The role of toxic pitohuis in mixed-species flocks of lowland forest in Papua New Guinea

(2011) Eben Goodale et al.   EMU

Northern Mockingbirds produce syntactical patterns of vocal mimicry that reflect taxonomy of imitated species

(2011) David E. Gammon et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

The mimetic repertoire of the spotted bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus maculatus

(2011) Laura A. Kelley et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos

(2011) N. E. Langmore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences

(2011) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A micro-geography of fear: learning to eavesdrop on alarm calls of neighbouring heterospecifics

(2011) R. D. Magrath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Assessing “false” alarm calls by a drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) in mixed-species bird flocks

(2010) S. Harsha K. Satischandra et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

To females of a noctuid moth, male courtship songs are nothing more than bat echolocation calls

(2010) R. Nakano et al.   Biology Letters

Vocal mimicry in male bowerbirds: who learns from whom?

(2010) L. A. Kelley et al.   Biology Letters

Rattlesnake Rattles and Burrowing Owl Hisses: A Case of Acoustic Batesian Mimicry

(2010) Matthew P. Rowe et al.   ETHOLOGY

SINGING FOR YOUR SUPPER: SENTINEL CALLING BY KLEPTOPARASITES CAN MITIGATE THE COST TO VICTIMS

(2010) Andrew N. Radford et al.   EVOLUTION

Assassin bug uses aggressive mimicry to lure spider prey

(2010) A. E. Wignall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mimicry as a novel pathway linking biodiversity functions and individual behavioural performances

(2010) P. Laiolo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Character displacement from the receiver's perspective: species and mate recognition despite convergent signals in suboscine birds

(2010) N. Seddon 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

Song development in the grasshopper sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum

(2009) Jill A. Soha et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Superb fairy-wren males aggregate into hidden leks to solicit extragroup fertilizations before dawn

(2009) Andrew Cockburn et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Mimicry in coral reef fish: how accurate is this deception in terms of color and luminance?

(2009) Karen L. Cheney et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The role of interspecific interference competition in character displacement and the evolution of competitor recognition

(2009) Gregory F. Grether et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Climatic Patterns Predict the Elaboration of Song Displays in Mockingbirds

(2009) Carlos A. Botero et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Joseph A. Tobias et al.   EVOLUTION

Two sympatric species of passerine birds imitate the same raptor calls in alarm contexts

(2009) Chaminda P. Ratnayake et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Ultrasonic courtship songs of male Asian corn borer moths assist copulation attempts by making the females motionless

(2009) RYO NAKANO et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Acoustic mate copying: female cowbirds attend to other females' vocalizations to modify their song preferences

(2009) G. Freed-Brown et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Species recognition in a vocal mimic: repetition pattern not the only cue used by Northern Mockingbirds in discriminating songs of conspecifics and Brown Thrashers

(2009) Dustin G. Reichard et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Vocal mimicry in songbirds

(2008) Laura A. Kelley et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mimetic song in superb lyrebirds: species mimicked and mimetic accuracy in different populations and age classes

(2008) Richard Zann et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Female mate choice and songbird song repertoires

(2008) Bruce E. Byers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

SOCIALLY ACQUIRED HOST-SPECIFIC MIMICRY AND THE EVOLUTION OF HOST RACES IN HORSFIELD'S BRONZE-CUCKOOCHALCITES BASALIS

(2008) Naomi E. Langmore et al.   EVOLUTION

VOCAL MIMICRY OF THEIR HOSTS BY NESTLINGS OF THE GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO AND STRIPED CRESTED CUCKOO

(2008) P. J. Mundy   IBIS

THE IMITATIVE RANGE OF THE SONG OF THE MARSH WARBLER ACROCEPHALUS PALUSTRIS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO IMITATIONS OF AFRICAN BIRDS

(2008) FRANÇOISE DOWSETT-LEMAIRE   IBIS

Vocal mimicry in wild African Grey Parrots Psittacus erithacus

(2008) ALICK J. CRUICKSHANK et al.   IBIS

The comparative breeding behaviour of two sympatric cuckoos, Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcyx basalts and the Shining Bronze-Cuckoo C. lucidus, in Western Australia: a new model for the evolution of egg morphology and host specificity in avian brood

(2008) M. G. BROOKER et al.   IBIS

Cuckoo-hawk mimicry? An experimental test

(2008) N.B Davies et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Recognition of other species' aerial alarm calls: speaking the same language or learning another?

(2008) R. D Magrath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Song learning as an indicator mechanism: Modelling the developmental stress hypothesis

(2007) Graham R.S. Ritchie et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY