Title:

Seasonal variation of singing activity and relative effect of the advertising behaviour of males with different plumage colour in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

Subtitle:

Acta Ornithologica, vol. 36, no. 1 ; Zmienność intensywności śpiewu i efektywności zachowań godowych samców muchołówki żałobnej o różnym kolorze upierzenia ; Singing activity in the pied flycatchers

Creator:

Il'ina, Tat'âna Aleksandrovna ; Ivankina, Elena Vasil'evna

Contributor:

Polska Akademia Nauk. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii ; Meeting of the European Ornithologists' Union (2 ; 1999 ; Gdańsk)

Publisher:

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2001

Description:

Referat wygłoszony na Second Meeting of the European Ornithologists' Union ; Bibliogr. p. 89 ; P. [85]-89 : ill. ; 27 cm ; Abstract in Polish

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

Pied Flycatcher ; Russia ; Moscow ; courtship in animals ; congresses ; mating behaviour ; singing activity ; Old World flycatcher ; birds ; Ficedula hypoleuca ; Muscicapidae ; Aves ; 1994-99

Abstract:

From late April to the second 10-day period of June 1994-1999, in 76 unmated males the time-budget was measured during 304 hours in a 6.6 km2 area of mature mixed and coniferous forests near Moscow. In 1999, territorial males were counted at least once per pentade throughout the breeding season in a 35 ha plot with 180 nest-boxes. Dark (grades 2-3 on Drost's scale) and pale (grades 5-7) males had similar levels of singing activity, but in cold weather the former had higher song rates than the latter. The singing activity of all the males was relatively low at the beginning of the season (by the mid-May). Dark males sang mainly from open perches (67.6% of songs, compared with 23.2% for pale males). In dark males visual stimulation compensated for the relatively low acoustic activity in early spring when trees were still lacking leaves. The immediate vicinities of nest-boxes occupied by dark males were visited by females significantly more frequently than those of pale ones.

Relation:

Acta Ornithologica

Volume:

36

Issue:

1

Start page:

85

End page:

89

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

MiIZ PAN, call no. P.257, Vol. 36, No 1 ; MiIZ PAN, call no. P.4568, Vol. 36, No 1 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng ; pol

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. Access only on terminals at the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, may be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms.

Digitizing institution:

Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Closed