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Aimophila
sparrows - PhD dissertation research
University
of
Washington, Beecher Lab
For
my doctorate, I am studying vocal communication, sexual selection and
reproductive strategies in stripe-headed sparrows, a partially
role-reversed songbird.
Stripe-headed
sparrow females often sing more than males. This reversal is rare in
the bird-world, and I am interested in why intrasexual selection may be
stronger among females than among males in this species.
See my recent paper on the subject, soon to
be published in the journal Proceedings
of the Rogyal Society Series B.
Species
from the genus Aimophila
are found in North, Central and South America. By comparing song and
behavior among many of these species, I also hope to determine how
stripe-headed sparrows became to be so unique.
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