Song sharing by neighbourhood groups of territorial male Blackeyed Bulbuls

Lloyd, Penn; Hulley, Patrick E; Craig, Adrian J F K

Title: Song sharing by neighbourhood groups of territorial male Blackeyed Bulbuls
Creator: Lloyd, Penn, Hulley, Patrick E, Craig, Adrian J F K
Subject: To be catalogued
Date: 1999
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447841
Identifier: vital:74678
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/00306525.1999.9634238
Description: The territorial song of the Blackeyed Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus is described for a population followed over two breeding seasons in suburban Grahamstown, South Africa. The Blackeyed Bulbul has a discrete and highly structured system of phrase sharing by neighbourhood groups of males. The most common repertoire size is five phrases (mean 5.5; range 2–9). In a temporally-stable song population, individual phrases are shared independently by discrete clusters of males. Neighbours show a strong tendency to share phrase types (but rarely whole repertoires), with overall song similarity decreasing rapidly with increasing distance between birds. This species is an ideal candidate for testing hypotheses concerning the adaptive value of song sharing by neighbourhood groups.
Format: 6 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Ostrich, Lloyd, P., Hulley, P.E. and Craig, A.J., 1999. Song sharing by neighbourhood groups of territorial male Blackeyed Bulbuls. Ostrich, 70(3-4), pp.208-213, Ostrich volume 70 number 3-4 208 213 1999 1727-947X
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