Roles of the song repertoire in red-winged blackbirds

Douglas G. Smith1, Fiona A. Reid1
1Department of Biology, Neurobiology and Behavior Program, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, USA

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Male red-winged blackbirds, like many other discontinuous singers, possess a repertoire of song types or renditions. We observed the behavior of four territorial males for over 500 h and recorded more than 7,600 songs to determine the functions of these repertoires. Analysis of the recordings and behavior revealed the following:

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