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Animal sounds. --- Birdsongs. --- Animal language --- Animal communication --- Bioacoustics --- Nature sounds --- Bird calls --- Bird-song --- Bird songs --- Animal sounds --- Songbirds --- Birdsongs

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Birdsongs. --- Animal sounds. --- Animal language --- Animal communication --- Bioacoustics --- Nature sounds --- Bird calls --- Bird-song --- Bird songs --- Animal sounds --- Songbirds

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Warblers are among the most challenging birds to identify. They exhibit an array of seasonal plumages and have distinctive yet oft-confused calls and songs. The Warbler Guide enables you to quickly identify any of the 56 species of warblers in the United States and Canada. This groundbreaking guide features more than 1,000 stunning color photos, extensive species accounts with multiple viewing angles, and an entirely new system of vocalization analysis that helps you distinguish songs and calls.The Warbler Guide revolutionizes birdwatching, making warbler identification easier than ever before. For more information, please see the author videos on the Princeton University Press website.Covers all 56 species of warblers in the United States and CanadaVisual quick finders help you identify warblers from any angleSong and call finders make identification easy using a few simple questionsUses sonograms to teach a new system of song identification that makes it easier to understand and hear differences between similar speciesDetailed species accounts show multiple views with diagnostic points, direct comparisons of plumage and vocalizations with similar species, and complete aging and sexing descriptionsNew aids to identification include song mnemonics and icons for undertail pattern, color impression, habitat, and behaviorIncludes field exercises, flight shots, general identification strategies, and quizzesA complete, page-by-page audio companion to all of the 1,000-plus songs and calls covered by the book is available for purchase and download from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library by using the link at www.TheWarblerGuide.com

Birdsongs --- Wood warblers --- Compsothlypidae --- Mniotiltidae --- New World warblers --- Parulidae --- Parulinae --- Warblers, New World --- Warblers, Wood --- Emberizidae --- Songbirds --- Bird calls --- Bird-song --- Bird songs --- Animal sounds

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In recent years birdsong has developed into an extremely interesting problem for researchers in several branches of the scientific community. The reason is that of the approximately 10,000 species of birds known to exist, some 4000 share with humans (and just a few other species in the animal kingdom) a remarkable feature: their acquisition of vocalization requires a certain degree of exposure to a tutor. Between the complex neural architecture involved in the process and the song itself, stands a delicate apparatus that the bird must control with incredible precision. This book deals with the physical mechanisms at work in the production of birdsong, the acoustic effects that the avian vocal organ is capable of generating, and the nature of the neural instructions needed to drive it. The book provides fascinating reading for physicists, biologists and general readers alike.

Birds --- Birdsongs. --- Vocalization. --- Bird calls --- Bird-song --- Bird songs --- Animal sounds --- Songbirds --- Talking birds --- Neurobiology. --- Acoustics. --- Morphology (Animals). --- Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics. --- Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology. --- Animal morphology --- Animals --- Body form in animals --- Zoology --- Morphology --- Neurosciences --- Biophysics. --- Biological physics. --- Animal anatomy. --- Animal anatomy --- Biology --- Physiology --- Biological physics --- Medical sciences --- Physics --- Anatomy

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Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human speech and language. In this book, leading scholars draw on the latest research to explore what birdsong can tell us about the biology of human speech and language and the consequences for evolutionary biology. They examine the cognitive and neural similarities between birdsong learning and speech and language acquisition, considering vocal imitation, auditory learning, an early vocalization phase ("babbling"), the structural properties of birdsong and human language, and the striking similarities between the neural organization of learning and vocal production in birdsong and human speech. After outlining the basic issues involved in the study of both language and evolution, the contributors compare birdsong and language in terms of acquisition, recursion, and core structural properties, and then examine the neurobiology of song and speech, genomic factors, and the emergence and evolution of language.

Birds --- Birdsongs. --- Cognitive neuroscience. --- Human evolution. --- Language acquisition. --- Neurolinguistics. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Vocalization. --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Neuro-linguistics --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Cognitive neuropsychology --- Bird calls --- Bird-song --- Bird songs --- Acquisition --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Biolinguistics --- Higher nervous activity --- Neuropsychology --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Cognitive science --- Animal sounds --- Songbirds --- Talking birds --- Philosophy --- Origin --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- NEUROSCIENCE/General --- Cognitive psychology --- Evolution. Phylogeny --- Birdsongs --- Cognitive neuroscience --- Human evolution --- Language acquisition --- Neurolinguistics --- Vocalization