Trade-off between species recognition and individual discrimination in tropical Turtur doves
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The project was initiated because we found that African doves (or wood-doves) from the genus Turtur have very unique songs. These songs are low in frequency, long, and superficially similar both between species and among individuals within species. However, despite sharing some common characteristics typical for the genus, they are species-specific and individually distinct. We described, for the first time, the songs of all five species from the genus Turtur, and experimentally tested both inter- and intra-specific song discrimination.
We identified the song characteristics important for species and individual recognition, and experimentally tested responses to both conspecific and congeneric songs in sympatry and allopatry. Finally, we provided the first experimental evidence in doves that they can vocally discriminate between neighbors and strangers.
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Papers published
Niśkiewicz M, Szymański P, Zampa L, Budka M, Osiejuk TS (2024) Neighbour-stranger discrimination in an African wood dove inhabiting equatorial rainforest. Scientific Reports 13: 4252.
DOI 10.1038/s41598-024-53867-7
Niśkiewicz M, Szymański P, Budka M, Osiejuk TS (2023) Response to song of the conspecific and congeneric species song in sympatry and allopatry. Scientific Reports 13:15948. DOI 10.1038/s41598-023-43035-8
Szymański P, Niśkiewicz M, Budka M, Zampa L, Osiejuk TS, Skoracki M (2023) Quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acariformes: Prostigmata) parasitising doves of the genus Turtur (Columbiformes: Columbidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology 28(9):1466-1475.
DOI: 10.11158/saa.28.9.2
Osiejuk, T.S., Żbikowski, B., Wheeldon, A., Budka, M. (2019) Hey mister Tambourine Dove, sing a song for me: simple but individually specific songs of Turtur tympanistria from Cameroon. Avian Research 10:14. DOI:10.1186/s40657-019-0153-x
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