hello all,

here is the abstract of an article about female "eavesdropping" on
male bird song contests. the implication being that using tapes to
attract birds for easy viewing may actually interfere with the
natural order of things.

Original article is in this week's Science.

Mennill, Daniel J., Laurene M. Ratcliffe, and Peter T. Boag. 2002.
Female eavesdropping on male song contests in songbirds. Science 296: 873.

http://www.nature.com/nsu/020429/020429-14.html

regards,

Deborah Wisti-Peterson, PhD Candidate nyneve at u.washington.edu
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
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