Geoff, Here is a response to the Texbird inquiry you posted on Bioacoustics. I am also including Tony's address in the event you want to communicate directly. Tony, thanks a lot. This list really helped me once when I was wondering if sound could be useful to rid a house of resident bats. (personally, I always had the attitude that the bats were very generous to let us share the house with them).
Thanks, Don Logan Austin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Gallucci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [TEXBIRDS] Fw: Models for mimicry in birdsong > Here are some possibilities; their bibilios will also be of much > use; wish i had time to do more searching: > > Payne, R. B., & Payne, L. L. (1997). Field observation, experimental > design,and the time and place of learning bird songs. In > C. T. Snowdon & M.Hausberger (Eds.), Social Influences on Vocal > Development (pp. 57-84). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. > > Bertram, Anim. Behav. Monogr. 3:79 192, 1979 > > Payne, Anim. Behav. 29:688-697, 1981; Feekes, Z. Tierpsychol. > 58:119-152, 1982 > > Psychological Science Volume 10: Issue 2 > Temporal Induction of Missing Birdsong Segments in European Starlings > Richard F. Braaten Jennifer C. Leary > Abstract > Four European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) discriminated a 300-ms > segment of starling song from a 300-ms segment of budgerigar song in > three contexts in a two-choice key-peck operant discrimination > task. In the starling-song context, on each trial, one of the song > segments was presented in the context of starling song; in the > budgerigar-song context, the segments were presented in the context > of budgerigar song. In the no-song context, the song segments were > presented outside of a song context. On occasional unreinforced > probe trials, the song segments were replaced by either white noise > or silence. On noise trials in the two song contexts, but not on > silent trials in the song contexts or noise trials in the no-song > context, the starlings were significantly more likely to respond to > the key associated with the starling song segment than to the key > associated with the budgerigar song segment. This effect was > especially pronounced in the starling-song context. The results > indicate that noise induces perceptual restoration of missing > birdsong segments in songbirds. > > Braaten, R. F., & Hulse, S. H. (1993). Perceptual organization of > auditory temporal patterns in European starlings (Sturnus > vulgaris). Perception and Psychophysics, 54, 567-578. > > MacDougall-Shackleton, S., & Hulse, S. H. (1996). Concurrent > absolute and relative pitch processing by European starlings > (Sturnus vulgaris). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 110, 139-146. > > Hulse, S. H., MacDougall-Shackleton, S. A., & Wisniewski, > A. B. (1997). Auditory scene analysis by song birds: Stream > segregation of bird song by European Starlings (Sturnus > vulgaris). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 111, 3-13. > > Chaiken, M., Gentner, T. Q., & Hulse, S. H. (1997). Effects of > social interaction on the development of starling song and the > perception of these effects by conspecifics. Journal of Comparative > Psychology, 111, 379-392. > > Wisniewski, A. B., & Hulse, S. H. (1997). Auditory scene analysis in > European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris): Discrimination of starling > song segments, their segregation from conspecific song, and evidence > for conspecific song categorization. Journal of Comparative > Psychology, 111, 337-350 > > Ball, G. F., & Hulse, S. H. (1998). Bird Song. American > Psychologist, 53, 37-58. > > MacDougall-Shackleton, S. A., Hulse, S. H., Gentner, T. Q., & White, > W. (1998). Auditory scene analysis by song birds: Evidence for > stream segregation of tone sequences distinguished by pitch. Journal > of the Acoustical Society of America, 103, 3581-3587. > > Gentner, T. Q., & Hulse, S. H. (1998). Perceptual mechanisms for > individual vocal recognition in European starlings (Sturnus > vulgaris). Animal Behavior, 56, 579-594. > > > tony gallucci > hunt, kerr county, texas > > > > > From: Don Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Don Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [TEXBIRDS] Fw: Models for mimicry in birdsong > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:38:36 -0600 > > ---> Texbird help file http://www.texbirds.org <--- > > Geoff, > I am forwarding your request to Texbird, a list of excellent > scientists and birders in Texas. Someone there may be able to > respond, algthough Cornell would be 'the' experts. > > Don Logan > Austin, TX > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Geoff Sample" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:31 PM > Subject: Models for mimicry in birdsong > > > > Hi > > > > I'm hoping someone on the list might be able to help me with this. > > > > Some years ago (5-6) I'm almost sure I came across an abstract > > from an article about mimicry in starling (Sturnus vulgaris) > > song. The gist of the piece was that most of the imitations were > > learned from other starlings rather than the original model for > > the imitation (buzzard, curlew, golden plover etc.). > > > > I cannot find the source for this idea. Has my memory played a > > trick on me? Or can someone give me reference for this article, > > or indeed other research along similar lines - models for mimicry > > in birdsong? > > > > Thanks for any help, > > Geoff. > > > > Geoff Sample > > > > Wildsong Studios > > Northumberland, UK > > http://www.wildsong.co.uk > > ......................... > > > > 'Music is everywhere if only we had the ears to listen'. John Cage
