Without the ability to localize a sound, a bird's auditory world would be a cacophony of
environmental sounds and vocalizations. When we can identify the location of a sound …

Birds perform a wide variety of acoustically guided behaviors that place a demand on their
abilities to localize sound sources in space. Consider, for example, a male song-bird …

Sound localization is critical to communication when signalers are distributed widely in
space and when reverberations that accumulate over distance might otherwise degrade …

Accurate sound source localization in three-dimensional space is essential for an animal's
orientation and survival. While the horizontal position can be determined by interaural time …

Small birds should localize sound poorly because small head size limits azimuth resolution
and because the loose correlation of acoustic degradation with distance limits accurate …

In natural environments, the approach of a competitor, a predator, a relative, a mate, or one's
prey may be conveyed by subtle fluctuations within the acoustic environment. In many …

Barn owls can capture prey in pitch darkness or by diving into snow, while homing in on the
sounds made by their prey. First, the neural mechanisms by which the barn owl localizes a …

Recent biophysical and physiological studies of the directional properties of the auditory
system of birds indicate that a substantial revision of the existing views of yound localization …

The dynamics and accuracy of sound localization by the barn owl (Tyto alba) were studied
by exploiting the natural head-orienting response of the owl to novel sound stimuli. Head …

We investigated the mechanisms by which the barn owl (Tyto alba) determines the azimuth
and elevation of a sound source. Our measure of localizing ability was the accuracy with …