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List of works by William A Searcy

Adaptive priorities in brain development: theoretical comment on Pravosudov et al. (2005).

scientific article published in October 2005

Animal Behavior: The Raised-by-Wolves Predicament

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Animal communication, cognition, and the evolution of language

scientific article published in 2019

Birdsong learning, avian cognition and the evolution of language

scientific article

Developmental stress, song-learning, and cognition

scientific article published on 23 April 2014

Early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird.

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Evolution of Polygyny in the Ancestors of Red-Winged Blackbirds

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Featured Articles in This Month's Animal Behaviour

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Geographic Song Discrimination in Relation to Dispersal Distances in Song Sparrows

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Geographic song discrimination in relation to dispersal distances in song sparrows

scientific article published in March 2002

Individual Variation in the Strength of Territory Defense in Male Song Sparrows: Correlates of Age, Territory Tenure, and Neighbor Aggressiveness

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Individual variation in response to simulated territorial challenge among territory-holding song sparrows

article by Stephen Nowicki et al published September 2002 in Journal of Avian Biology

Long-distance dependencies in birdsong syntax

scientific article published in 2022

Neotropical wrens learn new duet rules as adults

scientific article published in November 2016

Quality of song learning affects female response to male bird song

scientific article (publication date: 22 September 2002)

SEXUAL SELECTION AND BODY SIZE IN MALE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS.

scientific article published in June 1979

Signaling Aggression

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Song function and the evolution of female preferences: why birds sing, why brains matter

scientific article published in June 2004

Song learning and cognitive ability are not consistently related in a songbird.

scientific article

Song repertoire size in male song sparrows correlates with detour reaching, but not with other cognitive measures

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Song type sharing and territory tenure in eastern song sparrows: implications for the evolution of song repertoires

article by Melissa Hughes et al published April 2007 in Animal Behaviour

Song-type sharing in a population of Song Sparrows in the eastern United States

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Song-type sharing in song sparrows: implications for repertoire function and song learning

article by Melissa Hughes et al published 16 June 1998 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Swamp sparrows modulate vocal performance in an aggressive context

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The Response of Male and Female Song Sparrows to Geographic Variation in Song

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The Territory Defense Function of Song in Song Sparrows: A Test with the Speaker Occupation Design

article by William A Searcy et al published 1998 in Behaviour

The evolution of bird song: male and female response to song innovation in swamp sparrows

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The evolution of vocal learning

scientific article published on 15 July 2014

The receiver-dependent cost of soft song: a signal of aggressive intent in songbirds

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