Optimal daily routines of singing and foraging in a bird singing to attract a mate

By John M. McNamara, Ruth Mace, Alasdair Houston. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

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Early birds are sexy: male age, dawn song and extrapair paternity in blue tits, Cyanistes (formerly Parus) caeruleus (2006, background): “Thus, only males with sufficient or surplus energy reserves would be able to afford to sing early (see also McNamara et al. 1987; Hutchinson et al. 1993).”
Condition-dependent signaling affects male sexual attractiveness in field crickets, Gryllus campestris (2003, background): “Environmental variation in temperature, food availability, conspecific competition, and risk of predation or parasitism may affect the trade-off between investment in sexual display and other lifehistory traits (McNamara et al., 1987).”
Optimal size of storage for recovery after unpredictable disturbances (2004, background): “…(Pugliese, 1988a,b; Iwasa and Cohen, 1989; Iwasa, 1991a), sex expression for coral reef fish (Iwasa, 1991b), animal behaviour (Iwasa et al., 1984; McNamara et al., 1987; Mangel and Clark, 1988), pathogen activity within its host (Sasaki and Iwasa, 1991) and general life history strategy (Taylor…”
The costs of singing in nightingales (2002, background): “That signals are costly is also a central assumption of theoretical models of daily routines of signalling (Houston & McNamara 1987; McNamara et al. 1987; Hutchinson et al. 1993; Hutchinson & McNamara 2000).”