The study of bird song dialects was once considered the most promising approach for
investigating the role of behaviour in reproductive divergence and speciation. However, after …

In the introduction to this theme issue, Honing et al. suggest that the origins of musicality—
the capacity that makes it possible for us to perceive, appreciate and produce music—can …

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together
some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our …

The modulation statistics of natural sound ensembles were analyzed by calculating the
probability distributions of the amplitude envelope of the sounds and their time-frequency …

The comparative hearing of birds and reptiles should always be considered together. It is
clear from the vertebrate fossil record that birds and reptiles split over 200 million years ago …

Although a universal code for the acoustic features of animal vocal communication calls may
not exist, the thorough analysis of the distinctive acoustical features of vocalization …

The functional and ecological consequences of the directional emission of sounds used for
communication remain largely unexplored even though non-uniform radiation patterns have …

The selectivity of neurons in the zebra finch auditory forebrain for natural sounds was
investigated systematically. The principal auditory forebrain area in songbirds consists of the …

1993, Brumfield et al. 2001, McDonald et al. 2001). Briefly, vocalizations and mtDNA show
concordant pa erns of transition between parapatric taxa, and those pa erns are, in turn …

Animal vocalizations play an important role in individual recognition, kin recognition, species
recognition, and sexual selection. Despite much work in these fields done on birds virtually …