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| Non-Vocal sound production |
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| Vibrate feathers or drum with head/feathers. |
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| Twist outer rectrices and vibrate to made very strange sound. |
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| Have morse code of tapping specific to sites. Use their head. |
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| Drum with wings by beating them on a log. |
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| Organ used for sound production |
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| Sound producing membranes |
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| Lateral and medial labia and tympaniform membranes. |
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| Stretch between the cartilaginous rings and allow the syrinx to change shape. |
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| Occur only in the syrinx of song birds. |
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| Sounds that are short and non-sexual. Alarm calls, mob calls, etc. |
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| Multiple syllable sounds that can be very complex. Sexual, territorial, etc |
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| Frequency of non-locatable alarm calls |
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| Frequency of locatable alarm calls |
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| Most common type of syrinx |
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| Cannot sing. Example, turkey vultures can only hiss. |
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| Percentage of air used in sound production |
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| Muscles in and around syrinx, throat/bill movements and tracheal length. |
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| Bird with greatest frequency range |
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| Alarm calls (locatable and non-locatable), begging calls, recruitement calls and contact calls. |
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| Bird with 2400 different songs |
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| Tendency for neighbours to have similar songs. |
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| Type of bird that uses accents to distinguish between territorial and sexual calls. |
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| Male bird with best song gets the most females. |
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