Song, mate choice and the question of kin recognition in a migratory songbird

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1980 • 3,860 citations

The Natal and Breeding Dispersal of Birds

1982 • 1,611 citations

A comparative approach to vocal learning: Song development in white-crowned sparrows.

1970 • 927 citations

Kin recognition in animals

1983 • 512 citations

Avian Communal Breeding Systems

1978 • 371 citations

Social interaction, sensitive phases and the song template hypothesis in the white-crowned sparrow

1984 • 357 citations

Cultural transmission of song patterns and dialect development in a free-living bird population

1978 • 327 citations

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

1983 • 317 citations

Signature Systems and Kin Recognition

1982 • 253 citations

Song Types in a Population of Great Tits (Parus Major): Their Distribution, Abundance and Acquisition By Individuals

1982 • 246 citations

Song learning and social interaction in indigo buntings

1981 • 227 citations

Ecological Consequences of Song Matching: Breeding Success and Intraspecific Song Mimicry in Indigo Buntings

1982 • 214 citations

Song Repertoires and Lifetime Reproductive Success in the Great Tit (Parus major)

1981 • 201 citations

Song learning, dialects, and dispersal in the bewick's wren.

1974 • 194 citations

The Process of Species-Specific Song Recognition By the Indigo Bunting, Passerina Cyanea, and Its Relationship To the Organization of Avian Acoustical Behavior

1975 • 154 citations

The Vocal Behaviour of the Indian Hill Mynah, Gracula religiosa

1970 • 152 citations

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1982 • 128 citations

Local Song Traditions in Indigo Buntings: Cultural Transmission of Behavior Patterns Across Generations

1981 • 120 citations

Behavioral Continuity and Change in Local Song Populations of Village Indigobirds Vidua chalybeate

1985 • 119 citations

Kin recognition: issues and evidence

1985 • 115 citations

Chaffinch Song Types: Their Frequencies in the Population and Distribution Between Repertoires of Different Individuals

1980 • 106 citations

The social context of song mimicry: Song-matching dialects in indigo buntings (Passerina cyanea)

1983 • 99 citations

Sensitive phases for song learning: Effects of social interaction and individual variation

1984 • 96 citations

Complex song repertoire of male long billed marsh wrens in eastern washington usa

1975 • 94 citations

Splendid Wren Malurus Splendens Response To Cuckoos: an Experimental Test of Social Organization in a Communal Bird

1985 • 77 citations

Song Variation in a Population of Indigo Buntings

1970 • 75 citations

Song development in the indigo bunting

1968 • 71 citations

Vocal Dialect Recognition and Population Genetic Consequences

1982 • 70 citations

Mating and song sharing in the great tit

1982 • 68 citations

The Significance of Song Variation in a Population of Darwin's Finches

1984 • 67 citations

Song Inheritance and Mating Patterns in Darwin's Finches

1985 • 64 citations

Bird Songs, Sexual Selection, and Female Mating Strategies**My research has been supported by National Science Foundation grants GB29017X, BMS75-03913, BNS78-03178, and BNS81-02404.

1983 • 48 citations

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2010 • 27 citations

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1980 • 8 citations