{"id":4180,"date":"2015-07-13T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T18:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2015-07-13T13:14:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T18:14:25","slug":"the-importance-of-singing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-importance-of-singing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of singing well<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4181\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pasted-image-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4181\" class=\"wp-image-4181\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pasted-image-0.jpg\" alt=\"Female song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) are more impressed by the size of a mate\u2019s song repertoire than the location of their territory. (Photo credit: Tosha Kelly)\" width=\"451\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pasted-image-0.jpg 1011w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pasted-image-0-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) are more impressed by the size of a mate\u2019s song repertoire than the location of their territory. (Photo credit: Tosha Kelly)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The reproductive success of male song sparrows, one of the most abundant native sparrows of North America, depends on their song repertoire, not the quality of their territory, according to new research. The researchers found that males with a larger repertoire produced and fledged more offspring annually.<\/p>\n<p>The study also found that these males moved shorter distances between breeding seasons, suggesting a more successful territory tenure.<\/p>\n<p>The study analyzed nine years of field data from breeding grounds in Ontario containing approximately 25 to 40 breeding pairs each year of the study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcresearchpress.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1139\/cjz-2015-0039?src=recsys&amp;#.VaP_REb9kZx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology<\/em> on\u00a0<strong>June 29<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Dr. Beth MacDougall-Shackleton, University of Western Ontario, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reproductive success of male song sparrows, one of the most abundant native sparrows of North America, depends on their song repertoire, not the quality of their territory, according to new research. The researchers found that males with a larger repertoire produced and fledged more offspring annually. The study also found that these males moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,114,917,1290],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-birds","tag-evolution","tag-reproduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-15q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}