We studied the pattern of variation in song characters among 16 New World pigeon species belonging to different taxonomic groups defined by morphological characters. Structural, temporal and frequency characters of the ...

This paper focuses on the pamphlet songs spread by the Chilean New Song movement during the Popular Unity's government (1970-1973), in order to identify the forms assumed by the songs supporting the process, their main ...

© 2017 Blackwell Verlag GmbH In songbirds, the development of the species-specific adult song involves a learning process that varies in extension. In species that incorporate new song elements throughout life (open-ended ...

Empirical descriptions of vocal behaviour in avian communication are important in understanding its meaning and role in shaping the social and genetic relationships among individuals in a population. In this study, we ...

Studies of birdsong across very broad geographic scales, such as between the north temperate zone and the tropics, provide special opportunities to understand the role of variable ecologies, life-histories and mating ...

Birds sing mostly to attract partners or to defend territories or resources. In relation to the first function, song can vary with age if older experienced males signal their quality through their vocal output. Regarding ...

More than a neologism proposed to give effect to some conceptual game, the term guitarism, in contrast to guitaristc, reflects a conception about the specific behavior of the guitar in the practice of the Brazilian art ...

The present research project was carried out with the objective of evaluating the influence of the use of songs in the development of oral competence in students of the tenth level (A2 level) Uruguay school in the city of ...