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song playback experiment (Passeridae)

Subcategory: behavioral
Standard reference: Owen-Ashley et al. 2006
Papers: 4 | Mentions: 4

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Knowledge graph centered on song playback experiment (Passeridae) with 34 nodes and 68 connections. Top connected: interspecific competition, The effect of hemosporidian infections on white-cr, nutritional niche partitioning, breeding ecology, courtship displays.

Description

Systematic presentation of conspecific, heterospecific competitor, and control songs to territorial males followed by standardized behavioral observation and scoring. Uses randomized treatment order with repeated measures design.

Typical Equipment

  • Sennheise MZW 816 microphone
  • Marantz solid-state PMD660 recorder
  • Raven 1.0©
  • Sound Studio
  • Sony™ Model SRS-77 G speaker
  • tape recorder
  • JWatcher 1.0

Output Measurements

  • proportion time in each behavioral category
  • behavioral response intensity

Papers Using This Protocol (4)

student_paper

Behavioral response of Mountain White-Crowned Sparrows towards an interspecific competitor

2013using
student_paper

Tradeoffs between mounting an immune response and territorial singing behavior in mountain white-crowned sparrows

2009introducing
article

The effect of hemosporidian infections on white-crowned sparrow singing behavior

2007Ethologyusing
student_paper

Intraspecific signaling function of Crown Coloration in Mountain White-Crowned Sparrows

2005introducing