Males of many songbird species use song repertoires that contain multiple song types. A
commonly encountered evolutionary explanation for this trait and its recurrent appearance …

Zebra finches are an important model for vocal learning and avian mate choice. The two are
contingent on each other: males' learned songs are addressed at females with learned …

In almost all songbird species studied males sing, but differences in female song range from
species where females have never been observed to sing to those where females sing as …

Data from several field studies support the hypothesis that female European starlings,
Sturnus vulgaris, attend to variation among the songs of conspecific males when making …

This study addressed the question of how early learning processes in females influence
later preferences for a male trait. I tested whether exposure to song alone (of a male other …

Song in oscine birds is a culturally inherited mating signal and sexually dimorphic. From
differences in song production learning, sex differences in song recognition learning have …

Developmental stress has recently been shown to have adverse effects upon adult male
song structure in birds, which may well act as an honest signal of male quality to …

Male mating signals are often multidimensional, potentially providing multiple messages to
females. However, the relative importance of different signal dimensions and their context …

The elaborateness of many bird songs is commonly presumed to have evolved under the
influence of sexual selection by female mate choice. Thus, aspects of acoustic diversity …

The intensity of a signal is crucial for animal communication because a high signal-to-noise
ratio improves signal reception. However, variation in amplitude may also have signalling …