Repertoire sharing and song similarity between great tit males decline with distance between forest fragments Universiteit Antwerpen
Birdsong can play a critical role in establishing a territory and finding a mate among individuals from local and foreign populations. Variation in birdsong among populations can be influenced by habitat fragmentation and might affect successful dispersal among habitat fragments. We studied variation in great tit song in a long-term study population distributed over nine forest fragments. All individual males recorded had a known dispersal ...