Female mate choice and songbird song repertoires

By B. Byers, D. Kroodsma. 2009

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Unpredictable animals: individual differences in intraindividual variability (IIV) (2012, background): “…size (a measure of behavioural diversity) often increases as a function of age, while the IIV of a given song (the inverse of ‘song stereotypy’) often declines as a function of age (Botero et al. 2009; Byers & Kroodsma 2009; de Kort et al. 2009; Nelson & Poesel 2009; Rivera-Gutierrez et al. 2010).”
Sounds of male Lake Victoria cichlids vary within and between species and affect female mate preferences (2010, background): “The use of sound in the context of courtship indicates that sound production might influence mate choice, similar to the role of sound in well-known systems such as birds (Catchpole and Slater 2008; Byers and Kroodsma 2009), frogs (Ryan 1991), and flies (Klappert et al. 2007).”
Female mate choice based upon male motor performance (2010, background): “A recent review by Byers & Kroodsma (2009), for instance, questions the biological validity of assays used to infer female preferences for large repertoires, and also notes that small repertoires persist in many songbird lineages, with corroborating evidence in the evolution of some clades for…”
A call to document female bird songs: Applications for diverse fields (2018, background): “Many questions surround what selective mechanisms are responsible for complex bird song in both sexes (Beecher and Brenowitz 2005, Byers and Kroodsma 2009, Tobias et al. 2012).”