Vocal mimicry in the song of the icterine warbler, Hippolais icterina (Sylviidae, Passeriformes)

Title:

Vocal mimicry in the song of the icterine warbler, Hippolais icterina (Sylviidae, Passeriformes)

Creator:

Jůzlová, Zuzana and Riegert, Jan

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:955da517-bb63-4d7c-9673-7af9593932d2
uuid:955da517-bb63-4d7c-9673-7af9593932d2

Subject:

song variability

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

We recorded and analysed the songs of ten male icterine warblers (Hippolais icterina) in České Budějovice (Czech Republic) to identify mimicry. Imitations represented 76.2 % of the total time of all songs and we detected 42 mimicked species. Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica), blackbird (Turdus merula), common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) and fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) were the most common species imitated. Principal components analysis (PCA) detected individual variability in the species mimicked. The length of recording needed to detect 95 % of species mimicked was assessed to be 8.2 minutes.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Source:

Folia zoologica | 2012 Volume:61 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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