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Differences in the Songs of Birds from Island and Mainland Populations

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Based on recordings, the time-frequency characteristics and repertoire size of the advertising song were studied comparatively in several leaf warblers (Phylloscopus) and reed warblers (Acrocephalus) from mainland and island populations. No significant variations in repertoire size were found between mainland and island populations, but clear differences were revealed in the frequency and time parameters of the song between the Sakhalin and continental populations. In all of the species studied, the differences are displayed in a similar way. In the Sakhalin population, the frequency range is wider than in the mainland. Possible reasons for this expansion are discussed: (1) the impoverishment of the species composition of ornithocomplexes, (2) the effect of high air humidity, and (3) the effect of specific characteristics of the vegetation cover.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We collected the materials on the vocalization of birds on Sakhalin in the expedition of the Amur–Ussuriisk Bird Biodiversity Center. We are deeply grateful to the head of the center S.G. Surmach and head of the expedition O.P. Val’chuk for the opportunity granted to collect materials for our study. We also thank our colleagues on the Sakhalin expeditions: G.N. Bachurin, V.N. Sotnikov, V.M. Matyushin, M.V. Pogiba, and L.V. Kapitonova. We are grateful for assistance in organizing field research on Krasnoyarsk Territory to the administration of the Stolby Reserve, Director A.V. Knorre and Deputy Director for Research B.K. Kel’beshekov, as well as the head of the department of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Krasnoyarsk Territory G.V. Kel’berg, head of the department of zoology of Krasnoyarsk Pedagogical University A.A. Baranov, and head of the department of hunting resource studies and reserve business of Siberian Federal University A.P. Savchenko. We thank O.D. Veprintzseva for the opportunity to use records from the B.N. Veprintsev Phonoteque of Animal Voices of the IPEE RAS and help in the selection of phonograms. This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project nos. 10-04-00483a, 09-04-10099k, and 12-04-92106-YaFa (material collection)) and the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 14-50-00029 (data processing)).

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    I. M. Malykh

  2. Scientific Research Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 125009, Moscow, Russia

    J. A. Red’kin

  3. Department of Biology, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    V. V. Ivanitskii & I. M. Marova

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Malykh, I.M., Red’kin, J.A., Ivanitskii, V.V. et al. Differences in the Songs of Birds from Island and Mainland Populations. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 45, 803–811 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359018080083

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