Vocal performance influences female response to male bird song: an experimental test

By B. Ballentine, Jeremy Hyman, S. Nowicki. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Developmental Biology

1. W. A. Searcy
2. B. Ballentine
3. M. D. Beecher
4. D. Reby
5. J. Podos
6. S. Nowicki
7. Sarah K. Huber
8. B. Charlton

In Ecology

1. D. Reby
2. W. A. Searcy
3. B. Ballentine
4. M. D. Beecher
5. B. Charlton
6. K. McComb
7. S. Nowicki
8. J. Podos

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. W. A. Searcy
2. B. Ballentine
3. S. Nowicki
4. M. D. Beecher
5. J. Podos
6. D. Reby
7. Sarah K. Huber
8. B. Charlton

Citations in the corpus

• Fitness costs as well as benefits are important when considering responses to anthropogenic noise (2014, background): “2012), broad bandwidth (Ballentine et al. 2004), and large repertoire size (Krebs et al.”
• Reliable aggressive signalling in swamp sparrows (2008, background): “1 song types (Ballentine et al. 2004), and the modal repertoire size is 3.”
• SONG AND MATE CHOICE IN BIRDS: HOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF BEHAVIOR HELPS US UNDERSTAND FUNCTION (2005, methodology): “…reality of that upper limit comes from the distribution of frequency bandwidths and syllable rates between and within species of emberizids (Podos 1997, Ballentine et al. 2004); those distributions are triangular, such that no songs have both the highest bandwidths and the highest syllable rates.”
• Beak morphology and song features covary in a population of Darwin’s finches (Geospiza fortis) (2006, background): “We compared variation in beak morphology and song from two prior studies that failed to identify correlations between these two variables, M. georgiana (Ballentine et al., 2004; B. Ballentine, unpubl. data) and D. petechia (Beebee, 2004a; M. D. Beebee, unpubl. data).”
• Androgen-dependent male vocal performance influences female preference in Neotropical singing mice (2011, positive): “Nevertheless, our experiment mirrors avian studies that demonstrate female preference for high-performance songs (Draganoiu et al. 2002; Ballentine et al. 2004; Caro et al. 2010) and recent work in laboratory mice (Mus) showing female approach to male vocalizations used in sexual contexts…”
• The ability to perform physically challenging songs predicts age and size in male swamp sparrows, Melospiza georgiana (2009, methodology): “features of song were not due to differences in equipment, and when used in previous studies, this equipment resulted in highly repeatable acoustic measurements (Ballentine et al. 2004).”
• Female mate choice based upon male motor performance (2010, background): “For example, female canaries, Serinus canaria (Draganoiu et al. 2002) and swamp sparrows (Ballentine et al. 2004) prefer (laboratory copulation solicitation display tests) trills that are close to mechanical performance limits; male chestnut-sided warblers, Dendroica pensylvanica, that sing…”
• AVIAN COMMUNICATION IN URBAN NOISE: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF VOCAL ADJUSTMENT (2006, background): “This adjustment may reduce the a ractiveness of the male song in species in which females assess frequency bandwidth as an aspect of vocal performance (Podos 2001, Ballentine et al. 2004).”
• Song repertoire size is correlated with body measures and arrival date in common nightingales, Luscinia megarhynchos (2006, background): “…duration (e.g. blue tit, Parus caeruleus: Kempenaers et al. 1997), and features of song complexity or vocal performance (e.g. great reed warbler, Acrocephalus arundinaceus: Catchpole 1986; canary, Serinus canaria: Vallet & Kreutzer 1995; swamp sparrow, Melospiza georgiana: Ballentine et al. 2004).”
• Female perception of size-related formant shifts in red deer, Cervus elaphus (2007, positive): “Indeed, by integrating these techniques in playback experiments researchers can determine the perceptual and/or functional relevance of a specific acoustic parameter (Ghazanfar et al. 2001; Ballentine et al. 2004; Castellano et al. 2004).”
• Not so sexy in the city: urban birds adjust songs to noise but compromise vocal performance (2016, neutral): “(Podos 1997; Ballentine et al. 2004; Derryberry et al. 2012; Wilson et al. 2014).”
• Song as an aggressive signal in songbirds (2009, background): “Bandwidth is therefore traded off against trill rate, and the limit imposed by this trade-off can be estimated by an upper bound regression between maximum observed bandwidths and trill rates (Podos 1997; Ballentine et al. 2004; Illes et al. 2006; Cramer & Price 2007; Janicke et al. 2008).”
• Bird Song: The Interface of Evolution and Mechanism (2004, neutral): “Another vocal feature that expresses a trade-off with trill rate is frequency bandwidth, defined as the range of frequencies expressed in songs (Figure 3A) (Podos 1997, Draganoiu et al. 2002, Ballentine et al. 2004).”
• Tactical allocation of effort among multiple signals in sage grouse: an experiment with a robotic female (2010, background): “This mechanical constraint provides an upper limit to the possible trait combinations, and the ability of signalers to approach this limit may be used by receivers to assess potential mates and competitors (Ballentine et al. 2004; Podos et al. 2004; Illes et al. 2006; Cramer and Price 2007).”