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Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song.
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- Solo songs, duets and territory defence across seasons in female Galápagos yellow warblers,Animal behaviour · 2026Article
- Vocal performance in birdsong is an aggressive signal in both females and males: experimental evidence from a field study in European robins.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Global incidence of female birdsong is predicted by territoriality and biparental care in songbirds.Nature communications · 2025Article
- A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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- Females Are More Aggressive Than Males towards Same- and Opposite-Sex Intruders in the Blue Tit (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
In species with mutual mate choice, we should expect adaptive signaling in both sexes. However, the role of female sexual signals is generally understudied. A case in point is female birdsong that has received considerably less attention than male song. This holds even for well-studied species such as the blue tit (
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