Given that both sexes of most parrots learn new vocalizations throughout life and produce
them in diverse social contexts, whereas few songbird species combine all these traits, why …

The capacity to learn novel vocalizations has evolved convergently in a wide range of
species. Courtship songs of male birds or whales are often treated as prototypical examples …

Birdsong is a relatively well-studied behavior, both due to its importance as a model for
vocal production learning and as an intriguing complex social behavior. Until the last few …

Birdsong is regarded as a classic example of a sexually-selected trait and has been
primarily studied in systems with male song. Complex solo female song is emerging from the …

Avian song learning has a rich history of study and has become the preeminent system for
understanding the ontogeny of vocal communication in animals. Song learning in birds has …

Singing occurs in songbirds of both sexes, but some species show typical degrees of sex-
specific performance. We studied the transcriptional sex differences in the HVC, a brain …

Song development research has been dominated by studies of northern hemisphere
species where typically only males sing. However, female song is present in many species …

Homeothermic animals (birds and mammals) are prime model systems for investigating the
developmental plasticity and neural mechanisms of vocal duetting, a cooperative acoustic …

The neural processes of bird song and song development have become a model for
research relevant to human acquisition of language, but in fact, very few avian species have …

Songbirds learn their songs culturally, through imitating tutors. The vocal culture of a
songbird population changes as new song units (syllables) are introduced through …