Seasonal patterns of singing activity vary with time of day in the Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)

Auk

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 110-117

  Amrhein, Valentin ^a   Kunc, Hansjoerg P ^b   Naguib, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL VARIATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS;

EID: 1242310479     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/auk/121.1.110     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. AMRHEIN, V., P. KORNER, AND M. NAGUIB. 2002. Nocturnal and diurnal singing activity in the Nightingale: Correlations with mating status and breeding cycle. Animal Behaviour 64: 939-944.
2. BIRKHEAD, T. R., E. J. A. CUNNINGHAM, AND K. M. CHENG. 1996. The insemination window provides a distorted view of sperm competition in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 263:1187-1192.
3. BIRKHEAD, T. R., AND A. P. MØLLER. 1993. Why do male birds stop copulating while their partners are still fertile? Animal Behaviour 45:105-118.
4. CATCHPOLE, C. K. 1973. The functions of advertising song in the Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) and the Reed Warbler (A. scirpacceus). Behaviour 46:300-320.
5. CATCHPOLE, C. K., AND P. J. B. SLATER. 1995. Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
6. CRAMP, S., ED. 1988. The Birds of the Western Palearctic, vol. 5. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
7. CURRIE, D. R., T. BURKE, R. L. WHITNEY, AND D. B. A. THOMPSON. 1998. Male and female behaviour and extra-pair paternity in the Wheatear. Animal Behaviour 55:689-703.
8. CUTHILL, I. C., AND W. A. MACDONALD. 1990. Experimental manipulation of the dawn and dusk chorus in the Blackbird Turdus merula. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 26: 209-216.
9. EENS, M., R. PINXTEN, AND R.-F. VERHEYEN. 1994. Variation in singing activity during the breeding cycle of the European Starling Sturnus vulgaris. Belgian Journal of Zoology 124:167-174.
10. FORSTMEIER, W., AND T. J. S. BALSBY. 2002. Why mated Dusky Warblers sing so much: Territory guarding and male quality announcement. Behaviour 139:89-111.
11. GIL, D., J. A. GRAVES, AND P. J. B. SLATER. 1999. Seasonal patterns of singing in the Willow Warbler: Evidence against the fertility announcement hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 58: 995-1000.
12. HANSKI, I. K., AND A. LAURILA. 1993. Variation in song rate during the breeding cycle of the Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs. Ethology 93:161-169.
13. HASSELQUIST, D., AND S. BENSCH. 1991. Trade-off between mate guarding and mate attraction in the polygynous Great Reed Warbler. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 28:187-193.
14. HUTCHINSON, J. M. C., J. M. MCNAMARA, AND I. C. CUTHILL. 1993. Song, sexual selection, starvation and strategic handicaps. Animal Behaviour 45:1153-1177.
15. JOHNSON, L. S., AND L. H. KERMOTT. 1991. The functions of song in male House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon). Behaviour 116:190-209.
16. KLOUBEC, B., AND M. CAPEK. 2000. Diurnal, nocturnal, and seasonal patterns of singing activity in Marsh Warblers. Biologia 55:185-193.
17. KROKENE, C., K. ANTHONISEN, J. T. LIFJELD, AND T. AMUNDSEN. 1996. Paternity and paternity assurance behaviour in the Bluethroat, Luscinia s. svecica. Animal Behaviour 52:405-417.
18. MERILÄ, J., AND J. SORJONEN. 1994. Seasonal and diurnal patterns of singing and song-flight activity in Bluethroats (Luscinia svecica). Auk 111:556-562.
19. MÖLLER, A. P. 1991. Why mated songbirds sing so much: Mate guarding and male announcement of mate fertility status. American Naturalist 138:994-1014.
20. NEMETH, E. 1996. Different singing styles in mated and unmated Reed Buntings Emberiza schoeniclus. Ibis 138:172-176.
21. PÄRT, T. 1991. Is dawn singing related to paternity insurance? The case of the Collared Flycatcher. Animal Behaviour 41:451-456.
22. PINXTER, R., AND M. EENS. 1998. Male starlings sing most in the late morning, following egglaying: A strategy to protect their paternity? Behaviour 135:1197-1211.
23. RODRIGUES, M. 1996. Song activity in the Chiffchaff: Territorial defence or mate guarding? Animal Behaviour 51:709-716.
24. SHELDON, B. C. 1994. Song rate and fertility in the Chaffinch. Animal Behaviour 47:986-987.
25. SHELDON, B. C. 2000. Differential allocation: Tests, mechanisms and implications. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:397-402.
26. SORJONEN, J. 1977. Seasonal and diel patterns in the song of the Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia in SE Finland. Omis Fennica 54:101-107.
27. STAICER, C. A., D. A. SPECTOR, AND A. G. HORN. 1996. The dawn chorus and other diel patterns in acoustic signaling. Pages 426-453 in Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds (D. E. Kroodsma, and E. H. Miller, Eds.). Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.
28. WELLING, P., K. KOIVULA, AND K. LAHTI. 1995. The dawn chorus is linked with female fertility in the Willow Tit Parus montanus. Journal of Avian Biology 26:241-246.
29. ZAR, J. H. 1996. Biostatistical Analysis, 3rd ed. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.