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Male Song Repertoire Size and Syllable Sharing of Oriental Great Reed Warblers, Acrocephalus orientalis

  • Park, Shi-Ryong (Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education) ;
  • Park, Mi-Jin (Kyungdug Girls' High School) ;
  • Sung, Ha-Cheol (Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education)
  • Published : 2009.03.31
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Abstract

The size of song repertoires mainly provides evidence for explaining sexual selection for female choice as well as male-male competition. We investigated the role of oriental great reed warbler songs (Acrocephalus orientalis) of breeding territorial males. Early arrived males possessed larger song repertoires, paired earlier, and tended to become polygynous. No correlation was found between arrival date and territory size, but polygynous males significantly occupied larger territories than non polygynous males. Song sharing was low among males and the degree of similarity did not relate with spatial distance. Our results suggest that song repertoire of the oriental great reed warbler males play a role in female choice, where territory quality may affect male pairing success.

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