Pitch shifts and song structure indicate male quality in the dawn chorus of black-capped chickadees

By P. Christie, D. Mennill, L. Ratcliffe. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

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

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In Developmental Biology

1. H. Brumm
2. S. Zollinger
3. J. Podos
4. G. Patricelli
5. E. Nemeth
6. D. Moseley
7. D. Lahti
8. K. Riebel

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. G. Patricelli
2. H. Brumm
3. S. Zollinger
4. J. Podos
5. E. Nemeth
6. P. Boag
7. D. Moseley
8. D. Lahti

Citations in the corpus

• Female mate choice based upon male motor performance (2010, background): “…more extrapair mates (Byers 2007); male chickadees, Poecile atricapillus, with the most consistent internote ratios are most dominant at feeders (Christie et al. 2004); male blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus, with highly consistent intersong intervals tend to sire more offspring (Poesel et al.…”
• Extrapair paternity in chestnut-sided warblers is correlated with consistent vocal performance (2007, background): “Similarly, dominant male black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) maintained a constant ratio between the pitches of their songs’ 2 notes, but subordinate males sang with variable pitch ratios (Christie et al. 2004).”
• On the relationship between, and measurement of, amplitude and frequency in birdsong (2012, background): “…& Dooling 2009) and within the vocal repertoire (Nelson 2000; Beckers et al. 2003; Goller & Cooper 2008; Ritschard & Brumm 2011; Nemeth et al. 2012), although a negative correlation has been reported for certain song types in blackcapped chickadees, Parus atricapillus (Christie et al. 2004).”
• Patterns of extrapair mating in relation to male dominance status and female nest placement in black-capped chickadees (2004, background): “The dawn chorus singing behavior of chickadees contains honest indicators of male quality in both the total song output (Otter et al., 1997) and in the fine structural features of male song ( Christie et al., 2004b ).”
• Chapter 5 Vocal Performance and Sensorimotor Learning in Songbirds (2009, background): “Social dominance in black-capped chickadees is also revealed by consistency, not in the timing of delivery but in internote frequency ratios (Christie et al., 2004).”
• Tactical allocation of effort among multiple signals in sage grouse: an experiment with a robotic female (2010, background): “Similarly, low-ranking chickadees showed a decline in the stereotypy of a key song parameter with a change in pitch, whereas high-ranking males did not, which may be caused by differences in energy resources or singing skill (Christie et al. 2004).”
• Accuracy of song syntax learning and singing consistency signal early condition in zebra finches (2008, background): “As yet, singing consistency is not routinely measured, but there is some evidence in several songbird species that consistent vocal performance indicates male quality (Lambrechts and Dhondt 1986; Christie et al. 2004; Byers 2007).”