SCIENCE OF BIRDSONG BIBLIOGRAPHY

California Academy of Sciences Library

WEB SITES

American Birding Association Links: Research Resources for Birders and Ornithologists

http://www.americanbirding.org/abalinks/linkspage2a.htm

Links, links, and more links from the American Birding Association.

Bird Communication

http://www.biology.eku.edu/RITCHISO/birdcommunication.html

Information and notes from a lecture on vocal communication.  Also includes links to other relevant sites. 

Bird Communication Research: Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

http://birds.cornell.edu/BRP/ResBird.html

Web site from the Bioacoustics Research Program at Cornell.  Includes links to research done at the lab and more.

Bird Links to the World: Images and Sounds of Birds

http://www.bsc-eoc.org/links/links.jsp

Access to a variety of sites featuring images and sounds of birds.

The Bird and Mammal Sound Communication Group

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bmscg/

The Group is located at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.  Information on projects and researchers is provided.

Bird Song as a Possible Cultural Mechanism for Speciation

http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/1997/vol1/vaneechoutte_m.html

A fleshed out outline of the topic is presented.  “As such, bird songs can be considered purely cultural, behavioural phenomena with no determining roots in genetics. Combined with - equally culturally determined - differential preferences of females for male bird songs, one can hypothesize about cultural mechanisms which may increase genetic polymorphism in a population.”

Bird Song Files: Selected Species

http://eebweb.arizona.edu/faculty/hopp/song.html

Access bird song recordings through the web at this site.  Mexican jay and several species of vireo are available.

Bird Song: Mnemonics

http://www.1000plus.com/BirdSong/

This site attempts to help people remember bird songs and calls through simple mnemonic tricks.

Center for Bioacoustics – Links

http://bioacoustics.cbi.tamucc.edu/links/

The Center for Bioacoustics has provided links to many different sites.

Fat Birder: Links to Birding Song Sites

http://www.fatbirder.com/links/images_and_sound/bird_song.html

“The links [in the site above] are to sites specialising in bird song and sound. On some you will find extensive libraries of bird song from around the world, others are specialised or limited.”

Monitor: Researchers Find History of Rainforest Told in Birdsong

http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9904b/rainforestbirdsong.html

Article on how deciphering bird song could lead to new discoveries about the rainforest of Australia.

Music Without Borders

http://www.sciencenews.org/20000415/bob11.asp

This article starts with Dr. Baptista’s presentation at the annual symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Science Daily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010518081300.htm

“Female northern cardinals learn songs in one-third the time it takes male birds to learn the same number of songs, according to research at the University of California, Davis, by Ayako Yamaguchi, a former graduate student.”  Find out more in this article.

Songbird Sonatas

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3982818,00.html

The influence of nature, in particular bird song, in art is discussed.

Sound Analysis Software: Software for Bioacoustics

http://eebweb.arizona.edu/faculty/hopp/sound.html

“This is a compilation of WEB addresses that provide software and information for bioacoustics: as freeware, shareware, commercial trial versions, or commercial software. There is a wide variety of software available, and I outline a good number of sources below, with annotation.”

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BOOKS

Arlton, Alexander V. Songs and Other Sounds of Birds. Hoquiam, WA: Eklund, c1949. M&O QL698.5 .A77 1949.

Armstrong, Edward A.  A Study of Bird Song. London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. Main QL698.5 .A7 1963.

Baptista, Luis Felipe. Song Dialects and Demes in Sedentary Populations of the White-Crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1975. Main Serials QL1 .C3 v.105.

Baptista, Luis Felipe. A Revision of the Mexican Woodpeckers of the Piculus Complex. San Francisco, CA: 1968. M&O QL696 .P56 B3.

Birds of Prey. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, c1991. S.C. QL696 .F3 M37 1991.

Buffon, [Georges L.L.] The History of Singing Birds. New York: Arno Press, 1978. M&O QL673 .B9213 1978.

Catchpole, C. K. and P. J. B. Slater. Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. M&O QL698.5 .C38 1995.

Clarke, Herbert. An Introduction to Southern California Birds. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press, 1989. Main REF QL684 .C2 C57 1989.

Delamain, Jacques. Why Birds Sing. London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. Main QL698.5 .D33 1933.

del Hoyo, Josep. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 1992. M&O QL673 .H25 1992.

Forshaw, Joseph, ed. Encyclopedia of Birds. New York: Smithmark, c1991.   M&O QL672.2 .E53 1998.

Greenewalt, Crawford H. Bird Song: Acoustics and Physiology. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968. M&O QL698.5 .G74.

Hartshorne, Charles. Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song. Bloomington, IN: University Press 1992.  Pub QL698.5 .H27 1992.

Howes-Jones, Daryl. The Structure of the Call Note System of the Warbling Vireo. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1988.  Main Serials QL1 .T65 no.151.

Jellis, Rosemary. Bird Sounds and their Meaning. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1977. M&O QL698.5 .J44. 

Jesse, Andrea. Cultural Homologues and Insular Dialects in Nuttall's White-Crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli). [S.l.], [s.n.], 1997. M&O QL698.5 .J47 1997a.

Kroodsma, Donald E. and Edward H. Miller, eds.  Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds.  Ithaca, NY: Comstock Pub., 1996.  M &O QL698.5 .E36 1996.

Marcussen, Mary. Birds of Prey. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, c1991. S.C. QL696 .F3 M37 1991.

Mathews, F. Schuyler. Field Book of Wild Birds & Their Music. New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, c1904. M&O QL698.5 .M37 1904.

McCaskie, Guy [et al.] Birds of Northern California: An Annotated Field List. Berkeley, CA: The Society, 1979. Main REF & M&O QL684 .C2 M33 1979.

Mulligan, James A. Singing Behavior and its Development in the Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1966.  Main Serials QL1 .C3 v.81.

Nicholson, E.M. and Ludwig Koch. Songs of Wild Birds. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1936.  M&O QL698.5 .N55 1936.

Nicholson, E.M. and Ludwig Koch. More Songs of Wild Birds. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1937.  M&O QL698.5 .N55 1937.

Rogers Lesley J. and Gisela Kaplan.  Songs, Roars, and Rituals: Communication in Birds, Mammals, and Other Animals.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Main QL776 .R64 2000.

Smith, Susan T. Communication and Other Social Behavior in Parus carolinensis. Cambridge, MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1972. M&O QL696 .P2615 S552 1972.

Stallcup, Rich. Birds of California: A Guide to Viewing Distinctive Varieties. Frederick, CO: Renaissance House, 1993. Main REF QL684 .C2 S7 1993.

Thielcke, Gerhard A. Bird Sounds. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c1976. M&O QL698.5 .T4813 1976.

Thorpe, W.H. Bird-Song: The Biology of Vocal Communication and Expression in Birds. Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press, 1961. M&O QL698.5 .T5 1961.

Welty,  Joel Carl and Luis Baptista. The Life of Birds. New York: Saunders College Pub., c1988. Main REF & M&O QL673 .W38 1988.

Wetmore, Alexander. Song and Garden Birds of North America. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, c1964. Main QL681 .W56 1964.

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ARTICLES

Aldrich, John W. Ecogeographical Variations in Size and Proportions of Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1984. M&O Serials.

Baptista, Luis Felipe. “Las Aves de México en Peligro de Extinción.” Sección de Obras de Ciencia y Tecnología.  México, D.F.: Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: CONABIO: Fondo de Cultura Económica; M&O QL676.57 .M6 A93 2000.

Baptista, Luis Felipe. “Song Dialects and Demes in Sedentary Populations of the White-Crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli).” University of California Publications In Zoology; Vol. No. 105. Main Serials QL1 .C3 v.105.

Baptista, Luis Felipe. “Observations of the Feeding Habits of Some New Guinea Birds in Madang Province.” Muruk: The Journal of the Papua New Guinea Bird Society; 4(2), September, 1990: 71-74.

Baptista, Luis Felipe. “Relationships of Some Mannikins and Waxbills in the Estrildidae.” Journal für Ornithologie; 140(2), April, 1999: 179-192.  Main QL671 .J8

Baptista, Luis Felipe. “Acquisition and Recall of Gambel's Sparrow Dialects by Nuttall's White-Crowned Sparrows in the Wild.” Wilson Bulletin; 109(3), September, 1997: 516-521,  M&O.

Baptista, Luis Felipe. “Bioacoustics as a Tool in Conservation Studies.” Behavioral Approaches to Conservation in the Wild. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1997: i-xviii, 1-382. Chapter pagination: 212-242.  Biodiv QH76 .B44 1997.

Baptista, Luis Felipe. “Nature and its Nurturing in Avian Vocal Development.” Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996: i-xx, 1-587. Chapter pagination: 39-60.  M&O QL698.5 .E36 1996.

Howard, Hildegarde. “Fossil Birds, with Special Reference to the Birds of Rancho La Brea.” Los Angeles County Museum Science Series; Vol. No. 10. Main Serials QH1 .L6 no.10.

Howes-Jones, Daryl and Jon C. Barlow.  The Structure of the Call Note System of the Warbling Vireo.  Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1988. Main Serials QL1 .T65 no.151.

Kroodsma, Donald E. “Acoustic Communication in Birds.” Communication and Behavior. New York: Academic Press; v. 1. M&O QL698.5 .A26 1982

Marshall, Joe T. Systematics of Smaller Asian Night Birds Based on Voice. [Washington, D.C.]: American Ornithologists' Union: 1978. M&O Serials.

Peaslee, Claire.  “On Behalf of Songbirds: California Planning and Action for the Partners in Flight Initiative.” Observer: Quarterly Journal of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory; Vol. No. 97. M&O Serials & Biodiv Serials.

Slabbekoorn, Hans Willem. Perception of Coo Variation by the Collared Dove: A Parameter Analysis Using Playbacks in the Field. Leiden, the Netherlands: Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1998. M&O QL696 .C63 S53 1998.

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SOUND RECORDINGS

Bird Songs of California: Selected Bird Songs from the Sierras to the Pacific. [S.l.]: Wilderness Recordings, 1989. Main  QL698.5 .B57 1989.

Elliot, Lang. A Birdsong Tutor for Visually Handicapped Individuals. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, 1989. S.C. QL698.5 .E44 1989.

Kellogg, Peter Paul and Arthur A. Allen. American Bird Songs. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Records, 1955. M&O QL698.5 .A43 1955.

Know Your Bird Sounds. Minocqua, WI: Distributed by NorthWord Press, p1994. Pub AV/Multimedia QL698.5 .K66 1994 v. 1&2.

Pugh, Eleanor A. Backyard Birdsong. Wolf Creek, OR: Lichen Coop Corp., 1986.  S.C. QL683 .A19 B33 1986.

Pugh Eleanor A. Learn to Identify Birds by Ear Workshop. Wolf Creek, OR: Lichen Coöp Corp., 1986. S.C. QL683 .A19 L43 1986.

Walton, Richard K. and Robert W. Lawson.  Birding by Ear: Western North America. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., p1990. S.C. QL681 .W34 1990.

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