Vocal Behavior of Parus varius varius during Breeding Season
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    The vocal data of Parus varius varius were collected between March and July 2012 in Xianrendong Nature Reserve, Liaoning Province. All the data came from nine pairs of adult individuals and their chicks. In all, we got nine kinds of call types, including searching partner call, warning call, alarming call, threatening call, expelling call, thrilling call, feeding call, begging for food call, and assembling call. At the same time, five kinds of song type were recorded. Totally 18 kinds of syllable type were identified and their acoustic characteristics were measured and analyzed with Avisoft-SASLab Pro software (Germany). The vocal parameters of nine male individuals were tested using Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA. The durations of verse and syllable between the nine individuals were statistically different, whereas the maximum and minimum frequencies were not statistically different. This study quantified the characteristics of songs from Parus varius, and thus would help improve our understanding of its behavior during breeding season.

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LI Jian, WAN Dong-Mei, LI Dong-Lai, LI Jing, CHANG Peng, YIN Jiang-Xia. 2013. Vocal Behavior of Parus varius varius during Breeding Season. Chinese Journal of Zoology, 48(4): 513-520.

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  • Received:March 06,2013
  • Revised:May 17,2013
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  • Online: August 21,2013
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