VOCALISATION OF BIRDS

Vocalisation of Birds

Vocalisation of Birds

Introduction

Vocalisation of birds is a term used to describe a wide variety of vocal expressions of birds, which serve to transmit information related to mating. A few species are silent (such as, storks and some pelicans and vultures), but most emit sounds of one kind or another (Borrow and Demey 2010). Particularly in a group, the singing birds or canoros, vocalisations are arranged to form a recognisable sequence of notes, generally of more than one type which bear some relationship to each other. This relationship tends to be relatively fixed, and produces a specific pattern ...