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JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY
Volume 162, Issue 1, Pages 313-316Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-020-01839-9
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Behavioral repertoire; Song variation; Titmice; Xeno-Canto
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- Harley Jones Van Cleave
- Stuart L. and Nancy J. Levenick Professorships
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An atypical song of the Tufted Titmouse in East-Central Illinois has been identified and persisted for several years. Through spectrogram-based comparisons, it is suggested that these novel songs may truly be outliers exceeding the species-typical song variability of the Tufted Titmouse. This study also provides a methodological approach for assessing other potentially atypical vocalizations recorded from birds.
The Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor is well known for its stereotyped peter-peter-peter song, but anecdotal reports of its song's diversity also exist. We identified an atypical song in East-Central Illinois, USA, that has persisted for several years in the same vicinity. We used a spectrogram-based comparison metric to assess song similarity scores against con- and heterospecific songs from a citizen-science database. The results suggest that these novel songs may truly be outliers beyond the Tufted Titmouse's local range of species-typical song variability. Our study also illustrates a methodological approach regarding the assessment of other, potentially atypical vocalizations recorded from birds.
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