Do American Robins acquire songs by both imitating and inventing?

Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 341-352

  Johnson, Steven L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEDGING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMITATION; JUVENILE; NESTLING; SONG; SONGBIRD;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PASSERI; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS;

EID: 33845351706     PISSN: 15594491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/05-048.1     Document Type: Review

References (42)

1. BAPTISTA, L. F. AND K. L. SCHUCHMANN. 1990. Song learning in the Anna Hummingbird (Calypte anna). Ethology 84:15-26.
2. BEECHER, M. D. 1996. Birdsong learning in the laboratory and field. Pages 61-78 in Ecology and evolution of acoustic communication in birds (D. E. Kroodsma and E. H. Miller, Eds.). Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.
3. BEECHER, M. D., S. E. CAMPBELL, J. M. BURT, C. E. HILL, AND J. C. NORDBY. 2000a. Song-type matching between neighbouring Song Sparrows. Animal Behaviour 59:29-37.
4. BEECHER, M. D., S. E. CAMPBELL, AND J. C. NORDBY. 2000b. Territory tenure in Song Sparrows is related to song sharing with neighbours, but not to repertoire size. Animal Behaviour 59:29-37.
5. BEEMAN, K. 2003. Signal for Windows, ver. 4.02.03e. Engineering Design, Berkeley, California.
6. BENT, A. C. 1949. Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies. U.S. National Museum Bulletin, no. 196. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
7. CATCHPOLE, C. K. AND P. J. B. SLATER. 1995. Bird song: biological themes and variations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
8. DZIADOSZ, V. M. 1977. The vocalizations of the American Robin. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus.
9. FALLS, J. B., J. R. KREBS, AND P. K. MCGREGOR. 1982. Song matching in the Great Tit (Parus major): the effect of similarity and familiarity. Animal Behaviour 30:997-1009.
10. HANDLEY, H. G. AND D. A. NELSON. 2005. Ecological and phylogenetic effects on song sharing in songbirds. Ethology 111:221-238.
11. HILE, A. G., T. K. PLUMMER, AND G. F. STRIEDTER. 2000. Male vocal imitation produces call convergence during pair bonding in Budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus. Animal Behaviour 59:1209-1218.
12. HOWARD, R. D. 1974. The influence of sexual selection and interspecific competition on Mockingbird song (Mimus polyglottos). Evolution 28:428-483.
13. HSU, Y. 1991. The function of aggressive interactions and singing behavior in the American Robin (Turdus migratorius). M.Sc. thesis, State University of New York, Syracuse.
14. HUGHES, M., H. HULTSCH, AND D. TODT. 2002. Imitation and invention in song learning in nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos B., Turdidae). Ethology 108:97-113.
15. HULTSCH, H. AND M. L. KOPP. 1989. Early auditory learning and song improvisation in nightingales, Luscinia megarhynchos. Animal Behaviour 37: 510-512.
16. KONISHI, M. 1965. Effects of deafening on song development in American Robins and Black-headed Grosbeaks. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 22: 584-599.
17. KREBS, J. R., R. ASHCROFT, AND K. VANORSDOL. 1981. Song matching in the Great Tit (Parus major). Animal Behaviour 29:918-923.
18. KROODSMA, D. E. 1983. The ecology of avian vocal learning. BioScience 33:165-171.
19. KROODSMA, D. E. 1996. Ecology of passerine song development. Pages 3-19 in Ecology and evolution of acoustic communication in birds (D. E. Kroodsma and E. H. Miller, Eds.). Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.
20. KROODSMA, D. E., P. W. HOULIHAN, P. A. FALLON, AND J. A. WELLS. 1997. Song development by Grey Catbirds. Animal Behaviour 54:457-464.
21. KROODSMA, D. E., W.-C. LIU, E. GOODWIN, AND P. A. BEDELL. 1999a. The ecology of song improvisation as illustrated by North American Sedge Wrens. Auk 116:373-386.
22. KROODSMA, D. E., J. SÁNCHEZ, D. W. STEMPLE, E. GOODWIN, M. L. DA SILVA, AND J. M. E. VIELLIARD. 1999b. Sedentary life style of Neotropical Sedge Wrens promotes song imitation. Animal Behaviour 57:855-863.
23. LANYON, W. E. 1979. Development of song in the Wood Thrush (Hylocichla murtelina), with notes on a technique for hand-rearing passerines from the egg. American Museum Novitates 2666:1-27.
24. MARLER, P. 1981. Sparrows learn adult song and more from memory. Science 213:780-782.
25. MARLER, P. AND S. PETERS. 1982. Subsong and plastic song: their role in the vocal learning process. Pages 25-50 in Acoustic communication in birds (D. E. Kroodsma and E. H. Miller, Eds.). Academic Press, New York.
26. NELSON, D. A., H. KHANNA, AND P. MARLER. 2001. Learning by instruction or selection: implications for patterns of geographic variation in bird song. Behaviour 138:1137-1160.
27. NELSON, D. A. AND P. MARLER. 2005. Do bird nest-mates learn the same songs? Animal Behaviour 69:1007-1010.
28. NELSON, D. A., P. MARLER, AND A. PALLERONI. 1995. A comparative approach to vocal learning: intra-specific variation in the learning-process. Animal Behaviour 50:83-97.
29. NOWICKI, S., W. A. SEARCY, AND S. PETERS. 2002. Quality of song learning affects female response to male bird song. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 269:1949-1954.
30. OWEN-ASHLEY, N. T., S. J. SCHOECH, AND R. L. MUMME. 2002. Context-specific response of Florida Scrub-Jay pairs to Northern Mockingbird vocal mimicry. Condor 104:858-865.
31. PAYNE, R. B. 1996. Song traditions in Indigo Buntings: origin, improvisation, dispersal, and extinction in cultural evolution. Pages 198-220 in Ecology and evolution of acoustic communication in birds (D. E. Kroodsma and E. H. Miller, Eds.). Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.
32. PHILLIPS, A. R. 1991. The known birds of North and Middle America: distributions and variation, migrations, changes, hybrids, etc., part II. Bombycillidae; Sylviidae to Sturnidae; Vireonidae. Allan R. Phillips, Denver, Colorado.
33. RASMUSSEN, R. AND T. DABELSTEEN. 2002. Song repertoires and repertoire sharing in a local group of blackbirds. Bioacoustics 13:63-76.
34. READ, A. F. AND D. M. WEARY. 1992. The evolution of bird song: comparative analyses. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 338:165-187.
35. SALLABANKS, R. AND F. C. JAMES. 1999. American Robin (Turdus migratorius). The Birds of North America, no. 462.
36. SAYIGH, L. S., PETER L. TYACK, RANDALL S. WELLS, AND MICHAEL D. SCOTT. 1990. Signature whistles of free-ranging bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus: stability and mother-offspring comparisons. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 26:247-260.
37. SOUSA, C. M. 1999. How male singing behaviors affect extra-pair copulations in a population of American Robins. Senior Honors thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
38. THOMAS, D. K. 1979. An analysis of the morning song of the American Robin (Turdus migratorius) throughout the breeding season. M.Sc. thesis, Bloomsburg State College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
39. TSIPOURA, N. K. 1985. Individual variation in the song of the American Robin. M.Sc. thesis, Washington State University, Pullman.
40. TYACK, P. 1986. Whistle repertoires of 2 bottle-nosed dolphins, Tursiops truncatus: mimicry of signature whistles? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 18:251-257.
41. WAUER, R. H. 1999. The American Robin. Corrie Herring Hooks Series, no. 39. Austin, Texas.
42. YOUNG, H. 1955. Breeding behavior and nesting of the eastern robin. American Midland Naturalist 53: 329-352.