Counter singing

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As a counter-singing (also counter-singing ) at birds a change singing called, typically from neighboring station owners can be heard. The stanzas performed alternately by the two birds involved are uttered in more or less regular chronological order. The counter-song often has a distance-regulating function for the district neighbors, for example in the case of the blackbird , the nightingale or the redstart .

But counter- singing can also be a preliminary stage to duet singing in mated birds that alternately repeat the sound patterns or stanzas of the partner .

literature

  • Ralf Wassmann: Ornithological pocket dictionary . AULA-Verlag Wiesbaden 1999. ISBN 3-89104-627-8
  • Dietmar Todt: On Functions of Vocal Matching: Effect of Counter-replies on Song Post Choice and Singing. In: Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie. 57: 73-93. doi : 10.1111 / j.1439-0310.1981.tb01313.x