Indigo bunting, lazuli bunting
Chapter 5: More about Song Learning
Subchapter: Big decisions: When, where, and from whom to learn
From page 57 in the book.
Indigo bunting Photo by obert Royse
Lazuli bunting Photo by Robert Royse
Example 1. Indigo bunting: One song from each of two neighboring indigo buntings with similar songs (♫200). Longer recordings of each male: ♫203, ♫204. June 5, 2006. Quabbin Park, Ware, Massachusetts. (0:15, 1:06, 1:06)
♫200—one song from each of two neighboring males
♫203, ♫204—longer recordings from those two neighbors
Example 2. Indigo bunting: One song from each of two neighboring indigo buntings with similar songs (♫201). Longer recordings of each male: ♫205, ♫206. May 22, 2010. Tye River Gap, Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia. (0:13, 2:01, 1:52)
♫201—one song from each of two neighboring males
♫205, ♫206—longer recordings from those two neighbors
Example 3. Indigo bunting: One song from each of two neighboring indigo buntings with similar songs (♫202). Longer recordings of each male: ♫207, ♫208. May 11, 2014. Francis Marion National Forest, South Carolina. (0:15, 2:04, 3:34)
♫202—one song from each of two neighboring males
♫207, ♫208—longer recordings from those two neighbors
Example 4. Lazuli bunting: One song from each of two neighboring lazuli buntings (♫209). The rapid, seemingly incomplete song of the first male consists of only three phrase types. His neighbor begins with those same three phrase types, but then doubles the duration of his song by adding other phrases after that. June 3, 2018. William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, Corvallis, Oregon. (0:09)
♫209—one song from each of two neighboring males