Song learning and vocal tradition in Nuttall's white-crowned sparrows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 939-956

  Bell, Douglas A ^a   Trail, Pepper W ^a   Baptista, Luis F ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; NUTTALL'S WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW; SONG; WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW;

ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS NUTTALLI;

EID: 0032055287     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0644     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Baker, M. C., Sherman, G. L., Theimer, T. C. & Bradley, D. C. 1982. Population biology of white-crowned sparrows: residence time and local movement of juveniles. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 11, 133-137.
2. Baptista, L. F. 1975. Song dialects and demes in sedentary populations of white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli). Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 105, 1-52.
3. Baptista, L. F. 1985a. The functional significance of song sharing in the white-crowned sparrow. Can. J. Zool., 63, 1741-1752.
4. Baptista, L. F. 1985b. Bird song dialects: social adaptation or assortative mating? Behav. Brain Sci., 8, 100-101.
5. Baptista, L. F. 1996. Nature and its nurturing in avian vocal development. In: Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds (Ed. by D. E. Kroodsma & E. H. Miller), pp. 39-60. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
6. Baptista, L. F. & Gaunt, S. L. L. 1997. Social interaction and vocal development in birds. In: Social Influences on Vocal Development (Ed. by C. T. Snowdon & M. Hausberger), pp. 23-40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Baptista, L. F. & King, J. R. 1980. Geographical variation in song and song dialects of montane white-crowned sparrows. Condor, 82, 367-384.
8. Baptista, L. F. & Morton, M. L. 1988. Song learning in montane white-crowned sparrows: from whom and when? Anim. Behav., 36, 1753-1764.
9. Baptista, L. F. & Petrinovich, L. 1984. Social interaction, sensitive phases and the song template hypothesis in the white-crowned sparrow. Anim. Behav., 32, 172-181.
10. Baptista, L. F. & Petrinovich, L. 1986. Song development in the white-crowned sparrow: social factors and sex differences. Anim. Behav., 35, 1359-1371.
11. Baptista, L. F., Bell, D. A. & Trail, P. W. 1993. Song learning and production in the white-crowned sparrow: parallels with sexual imprinting. Neth. J. Zool., 43, 17-33.
12. Baptista, L. F., Jesse, A., Bell, D. A. & Cebrian, C. 1997. Acquisition and recall of Gambel's sparrow dialects by Nuttall's white-crowned sparrows in the wild. Wilson Bull., 109, 516-521.
13. Beecher, M. D. 1996. Bird song learning in the laboratory and field. In: Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds (Ed. by D. E. Kroodsma & E. H. Miller), pp. 61-78. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
14. Beecher, M. D., Campbell, S. E. & Stoddard, P. K. 1994. Correlation of song learning and territory establishment strategies in the song sparrow. Proc. natn. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 91, 1450-1454.
15. Blanchard, B. D. 1941. The white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) of the Pacific seaboard; environment and annual cycle. Univ. Calif. Publs Zool., 46, 1-178.
16. Bowman, R. I. 1983. The evolution of song in Darwin's finches. In: Patterns of Evolution in Galapagos Organisms (Ed. by R. I. Bowman, M. Berson & A. E. Leviton), pp. 237-537. San Francisco: Pacific Division, AAAS.
17. Catchpole, C. K. & Slater, P. J. B. 1995. Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
18. Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., Feldman, M. W., Chen, K. H. & Dornbusch, S. M. 1982. Theory and observation in cultural transmission. Science, 218, 19-27.
19. Chilton, G. & Lein, M. R. 1996. Songs and sexual responses of female white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) from a mixed-dialect population. Behaviour, 133, 173-198.
20. Chilton, G., Lein, M. R. & Baptista, L. F. 1990. Mate choice by female white-crowned sparrows in a mixed-dialect population. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 27, 223-227.
21. Chilton, G., Baker, M. C., Barrentine, C. D. & Cunningham, M. A. 1995. White-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys). In: The Birds of North America, No. 183 (Ed. by A. Poole & F. Gill), pp. 1-28. Philadelphia/Washington D.C.: The Academy of Natural Sciences. The American Ornithologists' Union.
22. Cunningham, M. A. & Baker, M. C. 1983. Vocal learning in white-crowned sparrows: sensitive phase and song dialects. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 13, 259-269.
23. Cunningham, M. A., Baker, M. C. & Boardman, T. J. 1987. Microgeographic variation in the Nuttall's white-crowned sparrow. Condor, 89, 261-275.
24. DeWolfe, B. & Baptista, L. F. 1995. Singing behavior, song types on their wintering grounds and the question of leap-frog migration in Puget Sound white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys pugetensis). Condor, 97, 376-389.
25. DeWolfe, B., Baptista, L. F. & Petrinovich, L. 1989. Song development and territory establishment in Nuttall's white-crowned sparrows. Condor, 91, 397-407.
26. Gibbs, H. L. 1990. Cultural evolution of male song types in Darwin's medium ground finches, Geospiza fortis. Anim. Behav., 39, 253-263.
27. Grant, B. R. & Grant, P. R. 1996. Cultural inheritance of song and its role in the evolution of Darwin's finches. Evolution, 50, 2471-2487.
28. GraphPad Software 1990-1993. GraphPad Instat Mac; Instant Statistics, Macintosh version 2.0. San Diego: GraphPad Software.
29. King, A. P. & West, M. J. 1983. Epigenesis of cowbird song; a joint endeavor of males and females. Nature, Lond., 305, 704-706.
30. Konishi, M. 1965. The role of auditory feedback in the control of vocalization in the white-crowned sparrow. Z. Tierpsychol., 22, 770-783.
31. Kroodsma, D. E. 1974. Song learning, dialects, and dispersal in the Bewick's wren. Z. Tierpsychol., 35, 352-380.
32. Kroodsma, D. E. & Baylis, J. R. 1982. A world survey for evidence of vocal learning in birds. In: Acoustic Communication in Birds (Ed. by D. E. Kroodsma & E. H. Miller), pp. 311-337. New York: Academic Press.
33. Marler, P. M. 1970. A comparative approach to vocal learning: song development in white-crowned sparrows. J. comp. physiol. Psychol., 71, 1-25.
34. Marler, P. M. & Peters, S. 1982. Developmental over-production and selective attrition: new processes in the epigenesis of birdsong. Devl. Psychobiol., 15, 369-378.
35. Morton, E. S. 1996. Why songbirds learn songs: an arms race over ranging? Poultry Avian Biol. Rev., 7, 65-71.
36. Morton, E. S. & Young, K. 1986. A previously undescribed method of song matching in a species with a single song 'type', the Kentucky warbler (Oporornis formosus). Ethology, 73, 334-342.
37. Nelson, D. A. 1992. Song overproduction and selective attrition lead to song sharing in the field sparrow (Spizella pusilla). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 30, 415-424.
38. Nelson, D. A. & Marler, P. 1993. Measurement of song learning behavior in birds. In: Methods in Neurosciences, Vol. 14. Paradigms for the Study of Behavior (Ed. by P. M. Conn), pp. 447-465. San Diego: Academic Press.
39. Nelson, D. A. & Marler, P. 1994. Selection-based learning in bird song development. Proc. natn. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 91, 10498-10501.
40. Nelson, D. A., Marler, P. M. & Palleroni, A. 1995. A comparative approach to vocal learning: intraspecific variation in the learning process. Anim. Behav., 50, 83-97.
41. Nelson, D. A., Whaling, C. & Marler, P. 1997. The capacity for song memorization varies in populations of the same species. Anim. Behav., 52, 379-387.
42. O'Loghlen, A. L. & Rothstein, S. I. 1995. Culturally correct song dialects are correlated with male age and female song preferences in wild populations of brown-headed cowbirds. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 36, 251-259.
43. Payne, R. B. 1983. The social context of song mimicry: song matching in indigo buntings. Anim. Behav., 31, 788-805.
44. Payne, R. B. 1985. Behavioural continuity and change in local populations of village indigobirds Vidua chalybeata. Z. Tierpyschol., 70, 1-44.
45. Payne, R. B. 1990. Song mimicry by the village indigobird (Vidua chalybeata) of the red-billed firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala). Vogelwarte, 35, 321-328.
46. Payne, R. B. 1996. Song traditions in indigo buntings: origin, improvisation, dispersal, and extinction in cultural evolution. In: Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds (Ed. by D. E. Kroodsma & E. H. Miller), pp. 198-220. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
47. Payne, R. B. & Payne, L. L. 1993. Song copying and cultural transmission in indigo buntings. Anim. Behav., 46, 1045-1065.
48. Payne, R. B., Payne, L. L. & Doehlert, S. M. 1988. Biological and cultural success of song memes in indigo buntings. Ecology, 69, 104-117.
49. Pepperberg, I. 1997. Social influences on acquisition of human-based codes in birds and mammals. In: Social Influences on Vocal Development (Ed. by C. T. Snowdon & M. Hausberger), pp. 157-177. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
50. Petrinovich, L. 1988. Individual stability, local variability and the cultural transmission of song in white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli). Behaviour, 107, 208-240.
51. Petrinovich, L. & Baptista, L. F. 1984. Song dialects, mate selection and breeding success in white-crowned sparrows. Anim. Behav., 32, 1078-1088.
52. Petrinovich, L. & Baptista, L. F. 1987. Song development in the white-crowned sparrow: modification of learned song. Anim. Behav., 35, 961-974.
53. Pyle, P., Howell, S. N. G., Yunick, R. P. & DeSante, D. F. 1987. Identification Guide to North American Passerines. Bolinas, California: Slate Creek Press.
54. Rohlf, F. J. 1992. NTSYS-pc; Numerical Taxonomy and Multivariate Analysis System, Version 1.70. Setauket, New York: Exeter Software.
55. Rothstein, S. I. & Fleischer, R. C. 1987. Vocal dialects and their possible relation to honest status signaling in the brown-headed cowbird. Condor, 89, 1-23.
56. Trail, P. W. & Baptista, L. F. 1993. The impact of brown-headed cowbird parasitism on populations of the Nuttall's white-crowned sparrow. Consent. Biol., 7, 309-315.
57. Trainer, J. M. 1983. Changes in song dialect distributions and microgeographic variation in song of white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli). Auk, 100, 568-582.
58. West, M. J. & King, A. P. 1988. Female visual displays affect the development of male song in the cowbird. Nature, Lond., 334, 244-246.
59. West, M. J. & King, A. P. 1996. Eco-gen-actics: a systems approach to the ontogeny of avian communication. In: Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds (Ed. by D. E. Kroodsma & E. H. Miller), pp. 20-38. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
60. Wiens, J. A. 1982. Song pattern variation in the sage sparrow (Amphispiza belli): dialects or epiphenomena? Auk, 99, 208-229.
61. Yokel, D. A. & Rothstein, S. 1991. The basis for female choice in an avian brood parasite. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 29, 39-45.
62. Zann, R. 1990. Song and call learning in wild zebra finches in south-east Australia. Anim. Behav., 40, 811-828.
63. Zann, R. 1996. The Zebra Finch. A Synthesis of Field and Laboratory Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.