Bird song has long been an inspiration to poets, and a delight to many other people, but why do birds sing? The subject has been studied extensively in the past few decades, so that there is now hardly an area of animal behaviour onto which research on song does not shed some light. This book explores the study of bird song from the biological viewpoint, and reviews the large literature written on the subject. The book is written with a wide readership in mind so that, while undergraduate and postgraduate students of biology may gain particularly from it, both professional biologists interested in animal behaviour and amateur ornithologists with some knowledge of biology will also find it a mine of information.
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