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BIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 4, Issue 6, Pages 651-654Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0406
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acoustic communication; dawn chorus; neotropical birds; background noise; acoustic interference
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The efficacy of communication relies on the detection of signals against background noise. Some species are known to alter the timing of vocalizations to avoid acoustic interference from similar signals of other species, but nothing is known about the possibility of coordinated adjustments in the timing of receivers' attention. I examined the possibility that co-occurring species might respond as well as vocalize at different times in a diverse tropical avifauna by presenting playbacks of recordings to territorial birds at typical and atypical times for singing during the dawn chorus. The results show that co-occurring species of birds in a diverse avifauna partition the timing of both production and response in a way that would reduce acoustic interference between species.
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