Functional and Evolutionary Relationships of Vocal Copying Phenomena in Birds

Territory and Breeding Density in the Great Tit, Parus Major L.

1971 • 733 citations

The Origins of Vocal Learning

1972 • 446 citations

Specific Distinctiveness in the Communication Signals of Birds

1957 • 346 citations

Reproductive Development in a Female Songbird: Differential Stimulation by Quality of Male Song

1976 • 335 citations

An atlas of speciation in African passerine birds

1970 • 310 citations

Feeding Behavior and Predator Avoidance in Heterospecific Groups

1977 • 291 citations

Effects and Functions in the Evolution of Signaling Systems

1974 • 283 citations

Mimicry in Plants and Animals.

1969 • 258 citations

Individual recognition by song in white-throated sparrows. I. Discrimination of songs of neighbors and strangers

1975 • 239 citations

The significance of song repertoires: The Beau Geste hypothesis

1977 • 235 citations

Vocal Imitation and Individual Recognition of Finch Calls

1970 • 232 citations

Convergent Characteristics in Sympatric Species: A Possible Relation to Interspecific Competition and Aggression

1969 • 225 citations

How Birds Develop Song Dialects

1975 • 203 citations

Differential Responses of Male Ovenbirds to Recorded Songs of Neighboring and More Distant Individuals

1959 • 190 citations

THE INFLUENCE OF SEXUAL SELECTION AND INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION ON MOCKINGBIRD SONG ( MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS )

1974 • 186 citations

Individual recognition by song in white-throated sparrows. II. Effects of location

1975 • 177 citations

Behavior, Mimetic Songs and Song Dialects, and Relationships of the Parasitic Indigobirds (Vidua) of Africa

1973 • 169 citations

The Vocal Behaviour of the Indian Hill Mynah, Gracula religiosa

1970 • 152 citations

A unified classification of mimetic resemblances

1976 • 143 citations

Recognition of Neighbors' Duets By Stripe-Backed Wrens Campylorhynchus Nuchalis

1977 • 141 citations

Habitat Selection and Interspecific Territoriality among the Sylviid Warblers of England and Sweden

1978 • 138 citations

Habituation and song repertoires in the great tit

1976 • 127 citations

Individual recognition by song in white-throated sparrows. III. Song features used in individual recognition

1975 • 124 citations

The Role of Song in Individual Recognition in the Indigo Bunting

2010 • 122 citations

Der Brutparasitismus der Viduinae als ethologisches Problem: Prägungsphänomene als Faktoren der Rassen- und Artbildung*

1964 • 121 citations

Phonation in the Orange-winged Amazon parrot,Amazona amazonica

1976 • 115 citations

Character Convergence

1973 • 99 citations

The Effect of Large Song Repertoires on Neighbor "Recognition" in Male Song Sparrows

1976 • 97 citations

Origin and Significance of the Power of Vocal Imitation: With Special Reference to the Antiphonal Singing of Birds

1965 • 87 citations

Habitat Selection and Interspecific Interactions among Mediterranean Sylviid Warblers

1976 • 82 citations

BOWER-BIRDS

1954 • 81 citations

Natural Selection for Juvenile Lizards Mimicking Noxious Beetles

1977 • 80 citations

Mating Systems of Tropical Birds: The Effects of Weakness or Absence of External Reproduction‐timing Factors, with Special Reference to Prolonged Pair Bonds1)

1974 • 76 citations

Wild House Finch sings White-crowned Sparrow song

2010 • 57 citations

The Rise of Coal Technology

1974 • 53 citations

Correlation of Age, Size of Territory, Plumage, and Breeding Success in White-Crowned Sparrows

1971 • 52 citations

Voice in Communication and Relationships among Brown Towhees

1964 • 51 citations

Vocal mimicry of the paraside whydahs (Vidua) and response of female whydahs to the songs of their hosts (Pytilia) and their mimics

1973 • 49 citations

VOCALIZATIONS, SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE TWITE ACANTHUS FLAVIROSTRIS

1975 • 49 citations

Mixed Song, Interspecific Competition and Hybridisation in the Reed and Marsh Warblers (Acrocephalus Scirpaceus and Palustris)

1977 • 48 citations

VOCAL IMITATION IN THE TROPICAL BOU‐BOU SHRIKE LANIARIUS AETHIOPICUS MAJOR AS A MEANS OF ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING SOCIAL BONDS

1966 • 47 citations

DUETTING AND CHORUS SINGING IN AFRICAN BIRDS

1971 • 47 citations

Avian Feeding Behaviour and the Selective Advantage of Incipient Mimicry

1971 • 46 citations

SATURNIID MOTHS AS MIMICS: AN ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATION OF ATTEMPTS TO DEMONSTRATE MIMETIC ADVANTAGE IN NATURE

1975 • 44 citations

RESPONSES OF MALE SONG SPARROWS MELOSPIZA MELODIA TO NEIGHBOURING AND NON‐NEIGHBOURING INDIVIDUALS

1976 • 41 citations

Vocal Mimicry and the Evolution of Bird Song

1975 • 40 citations

VOCAL IMITATION BY SOUTHERN AFRICAN BIRDS

1973 • 40 citations

Neighbor–stranger discrimination by song in male blue grouse

1979 • 38 citations

Individual Variation in Songs of Dark-Eyed Juncos

1977 • 36 citations

The Functions of Vocal Duetting in some African Birds

1977 • 35 citations

CHARACTER CONVERGENCE IN MEXICAN FINCHES

1970 • 34 citations

Behavioural interactions of interspecifically territorial vireos. I. Song discrimination and natural interactions

1978 • 34 citations

Interspecific aggression: Toward whom should a mockingbird be aggressive?

1978 • 34 citations

The Function of Vocal Mimicry in Birds

1950 • 33 citations

The question of dialects in the songs of white-throated sparrows

1974 • 32 citations

Song of the finch Lagonosticta senegala: Interspecific mimicry by its brood-parasite Vidua chalybeata and the role of song in the host's social context

1976 • 32 citations

Experimentelle Untersuchungen Über Die Artkennzeichnenden Parameter Im Gesang Des Zilpzalps, Phylloscopus C. Collybita (Vieillot)

1971 • 31 citations

Variable and Constant Structures in Greenfinch Songs (Chloris Chloris) in Different Locations

1977 • 28 citations

The Function of Vocal Mimicry in Some Avian Displays

1974 • 28 citations

Verhalten auf Lautäußerungen der Zwillingsart, interspezifische Territorialität und Habitatansprüche von Winter- und Sommergoldhähnchen(Regulus regulus, R. ignicapillus)

1977 • 27 citations

REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR OF THE MALE RED BISHOP BIRD

1974 • 25 citations

Vocal mimicry in the Thick-billed Euphonia

1976 • 25 citations

Character convergence in bird song

1977 • 25 citations

Das Lernprogramm in der Gesangsausbildung der Strohwitwc Tetraenura fischeri Reichenow*)

1973 • 24 citations

The Functions of Mimicry in the Vocal Behaviour of the Chorister Robin

2010 • 23 citations

Territorial Interactions in Sympatric Song Sparrow and Bewick's Wren Populations

1977 • 22 citations

Waldbaumläufer(Certhia familiaris) ahmen artfremdes Signal nach und reagieren darauf

1972 • 20 citations

Imitation und Variation von Schäferpfiffen durch Haubenlerchen (Galerida c. cristata [L.]) Ein Beispiel für spezielle Spottmotiv-Prädisposition1

2010 • 20 citations

Die Imitationsleistung einer Mischsänger-Dorngrasmücke(Sylvia communis)

1973 • 18 citations

Imitation und Transposition menschlicher Pfiffe durch Amseln (Turdus m. meruhi L.)1: Ein weiterer Nachweis relativen Lernens und akustischer Abstraktion bei Vögeln

1967 • 17 citations

Behavioural interactions of interspecifically territorial vireos. II. Seasonal variation in response intensity

1978 • 15 citations

THE FUNCTIONS OF VOCAL IMITATION BY AFRICAN COSSYPHAS

1969 • 13 citations

Unusual Songs in Passerine Birds

1968 • 8 citations

Variation in the Temporal Characteristics of the Vocalizations of Bullfinches, Pyrrhula pyrrhula

2010 • 8 citations

Beobachtungen an Zilpzalp-Fitis-Mischsängern

1965 • 7 citations

XXXIV.—The Problem of Vocal Mimicry.

1937 • 6 citations

Vocalizations of Male Euplectes in Captivity1

1976 • 5 citations