Journal Title
Title of Journal: J Ornithol
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Abbravation: Journal of Ornithology
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Publisher
Springer-Verlag
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Authors: Luis Sandoval Gilbert Barrantes
Publish Date: 2011/11/29
Volume: 153, Issue: 2, Pages: 547-554
Abstract
In songlearning birds male song shows a large interindividual variation that frequently plays an important role in intra and intersexual selection In other bird groups such as Galliformes song learning is absent and interindividual song variation is small and expected to play a minor if any role in sexual contexts In the Spotbellied Bobwhite Colinus leucopogon we found that many males have a unique set of song features and our results suggest that female mate choice in this species is based in part on male song traits Most paired males in our study had longer songs In addition these males established territories in the middle of the breeding season soon after the onset of the rainy season when increases in herbaceous cover and food resources would likely increase offspring and adult survivalBei Vogelarten die Gesangslernen zeigen weist der Gesang der Männchen eine große individuelle Variation auf welche häufig eine wichtige Rolle bei der intra und intersexuellen Selektion spielt Andere Vogelgruppen wie die Hühnervögel Galliformes lernen keine Gesänge die individuelle Variation der Gesänge ist hier gering und spielt zwischen den Geschlechtern vermutlich kaum eine Rolle Bei der Fleckenwachtel Colinus leucopogon besitzen dagegen viele Männchen ein individuelles Gesangsrepertoire Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie weisen darauf hin dass bei dieser Art die Weibchen ihren Partner zum Teil nach Gesangsmerkmalen wählen Die meisten verpaarten Männchen hatten längere Gesangsstrophen Außerdem besetzten diese Männchen ihre Reviere mitten in der Brutsaison wenn kurz nach dem Beginn der Regenzeit die Zunahme der Krautschicht und der Nahrungsverfügbarkeit die Überlebenswahrscheinlichkeit von Jung und Altvögeln erhöhtWe thank William Eberhard Johel Chaves Jessica Eberhard Edgardo Arévalo Franz Bairlein and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on previous versions of the manuscript Financial support was provided by the Idea Wild and the Vicerrectoría de Investigación Universidad de Costa Rica
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