THE SPANISH SPARROW (<i>PASSER HISPANIOLENSIS</i> TEMMINCK 1820) NESTLING BEGGING CALLS: CALL CHARACTERISATION AND DISTINCTIVENESS

Authors

  • Paulo A. M. Marques
  • Luis Vicente
  • Rafael Márquez
Keywords: vocal begging, inter-individual distinctiveness, sparrows, call structural characteristics

Abstract

This is the first study to characterise the Spanish sparrow nestlings begging calls. The nestlings’ begging calls presented high degree of inter-individual distinctiveness, Confirmed by both audiospectrogram correlations and discriminant function analysis. The post hoc classification miss-classified 7 cases out of 72 (making a total of 90.3% correctly classified cases). The individual call characteristics that seemed to best discriminate between nestlings were call duration and relative peak time.

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Author Biographies

Paulo A. M. Marques

Universidad de Lisboa

Luis Vicente

Universidad de Lisboa

Rafael Márquez

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
How to Cite
Marques, P. A. M., Vicente, L., & Márquez, R. (2004). THE SPANISH SPARROW (<i>PASSER HISPANIOLENSIS</i> TEMMINCK 1820) NESTLING BEGGING CALLS: CALL CHARACTERISATION AND DISTINCTIVENESS. Anales de Biología, (26), 3–11. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/analesbio/article/view/30401
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