Song repertoire and microgeographic variation in song types distribution in the corn bunting Miliaria calandra from Poland

Title:

Song repertoire and microgeographic variation in song types distribution in the corn bunting Miliaria calandra from Poland

Creator:

Osiejuk, Tomasz S. and Patyńska, Katarzyna

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:f1124cc1-66bc-0ce8-9bb1-6a45e3a8f4dd
uuid:f1124cc1-66bc-0ce8-9bb1-6a45e3a8f4dd

Subject:

song variation, dialect, song variants, and passerines

Type:

article and TEXT

Description:

Corn buntings in the Wielkopolska region (W Poland) show a clear local dialect pattern of microgeographic song variation only in relatively dense and stable populations, which inhabited typical farmland landscape. In less preferred habitats, where males were much more dispersed, or in sites that where colonized recently, we found no such a pattern of song type sharing. The between-individual song type variation was higher in such sites and males from such locations did not sing any common dialect. The pattern of full and shortened song variant usage was rather inconsistent. Shortened song variants were used more frequently during counter-singing than solo-singing, but some song types were shortened more often than others regardless of the context.

Language:

English

Rights:

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

Source:

Folia zoologica | 2003 Volume:52 | Number:3

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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