FEATURES OF SONG ORGANIZATION OF CHAFFINCH (Fringilla coelebs L.) IN A POPULATION OF THE SOUTH OF UKRAINE (CRIMEA)
O. A. ASTAKHOVA *
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Moscow State University, Faculty of M. V. Lomonosov Biology, Moscow, Russia
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Abstract
Song dialect of birds is a variant of the traditional form of song, shared by members of a local population of birds and it forming borders of a dialect (separating from other variant of song pattern), within the limits of which there is a traditional training (song learning) of characteristic song components in the given population. At the given work is discussion the formation of local song traditions of chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs L.) in a local population of the Crimean peninsula (the south of Ukraine), feature of it’s organization, similarity and difference to song types in other neighbour and remote populations of chaffinch (in its local vocal cultures) at quantitative and qualitative aspects.
Keywords: Species-specific song, subspecies chaffinch Crimean, different song types, song cultures