Young canary males can be tempted to sing songs that do not sound very canarylike, but as breeding season approaches, maturing canary males transform their biologically untested songs into ...

Many songbirds learn their songs early in life from a song model. In the absence of such a model, they develop an improvised song that often lacks the species-typical song structure. Open-ended ...

Canaries have been domesticated since the 15 th century and are the descendants of the wild canary that lives on the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. Like their wild ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Motor constraints on vocal production impose a trade-off between trill rate and frequency bandwidth within birdsong. We tested whether ...