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- PhD Animal Behavior Cornell University
- Masters Zoology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
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- On the Occurrence and Significance of Motivation-Structural Rules in Some Bird and Mammal Sounds (1977) (1125)
- Ecological Sources of Selection on Avian Sounds (1975) (1007)
- The Effect of Breeding Synchrony On Extra-Pair Mating Systems in Songbirds (1995) (310)
- Behavioral ecology of tropical birds (2001) (290)
- EXTRAPAIR FERTILIZATIONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF COLONIAL BREEDING IN PURPLE MARTINS (1990) (249)
- On the Evolutionary Advantages and Disadvantages of Fruit Eating in Tropical Birds (1973) (241)
- 6 – Grading, Discreteness, Redundancy, and Motivation-Structural Rules (1982) (205)
- Migrant Birds in the Neotropics: Ecology, Behavior, Distribution, and Conservation (1980) (185)
- Predictions From the Ranging Hypothesis for the Evolution of Long Distance Signals in Birds (1986) (164)
- Condition-dependent control of paternity by female purple martins: implications for coloniality (1996) (159)
- Animal Vocal Communication: A New Approach (1998) (147)
- Recent Advances in the Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds (2008) (109)
- Living with parasites: prevalence of a blood parasite and its effect on survivorship in the purple martin (1993) (109)
- Extrapair paternity in hooded warblers (1994) (105)
- The relationship between fruit crop sizes and fruit removal rates by birds (1986) (100)
- Habitat segregation between the sexes of wintering hooded warblers (Wilsonia citrina) (1985) (99)
- The singing life of birds: The art and science of listening to birdsong. (2006) (92)
- Confidence of paternity, actual paternity and parental effort by purple martins (1996) (87)
- On the learning of degraded and undegraded songs in the Carolina wren (1986) (81)
- Habitat Segregation by Sex in the Hooded Warbler: Experiments on Proximate Causation and Discussion of Its Evolution (1990) (80)
- Territory switching behavior in a sedentary tropical passerine, the dusky antbird (Cercomacra tyrannina) (2000) (74)
- Sound symbolism: Sound symbolism and its role in non-human vertebrate communication (1995) (70)
- 14. A Comparison of Vocal Behavior among Tropical and Temperate Passerine Birds (2020) (70)
- VOCAL RESPONSE TO PREDATORS IN PAIR-BONDED CAROLINA WRENS (1977) (68)
- Song ranging by the dusky antbird, Cercomacra tyrannina: ranging without song learning (1996) (68)
- Effects of Habitat Alteration on a Tropical Avian Forest Community (1985) (65)
- Nest Predation Affecting the Breeding Season of the Clay-Colored Robin, a Tropical Song Bird (1971) (63)
- Extra-pair mating system of a synchronously breeding tropical songbird (1998) (59)
- Do male plumage and song characteristics influence female off-territory forays and paternity in the hooded warbler? (2008) (55)
- Variation in Mate Guarding Intensity By Male Purple Martins (1987) (55)
- Prolonged Spring Migration in the Red-Eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) (2013) (52)
- No evidence for acoustic mate-guarding in duetting buff-breasted wrens (Thryothorus leucotis) (2005) (51)
- Genetic monogamy in blue-headed vireos and a comparison with a sympatric vireo with extrapair paternity (1998) (51)
- Do male Hooded Warblers exclude females from nonbreeding territories in tropical forest (1987) (47)
- Male Acadian flycatchers, Empidonax virescens, obtain extrapair fertilizations with distant females (2005) (45)
- The biological significance of age-specific return schedules in breeding Purple Martins (1990) (43)
- ARE MULTIPLE INFECTIONS MORE SEVERE FOR PURPLE MARTINS (PROGNE SUBIS) THAN SINGLE INFECTIONS? (2006) (42)
- Mating system of the Dusky Antbird, a tropical passerine, as assessed by DNA fingerprinting (1997) (42)
- The Role of Information in Communication: An Assessment/Management Approach (1997) (42)
- Intratropical Migration in the Yellow-Green Vireo and Piratic Flycatcher (1977) (38)
- Structural Adaptations to Local Habitat Acoustics in Carolina Wren Songs (2010) (38)
- FEEDING METHODS AND EFFICIENCIES OF SELECTED FRUGIVOROUS BIRDS ’ (2001) (37)
- PREDATION AND VARIATION IN BREEDING HABITAT USE IN THE OVENBIRD, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO BREEDING HABITAT SELECTION IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA (2005) (37)
- The role of distance, familiarity, and time of day in Carolina wrens responses to conspecific songs (1986) (32)
- DEMOGRAPHY AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN THE DUSKY ANTBIRD, A SEDENTARY TROPICAL PASSERINE (2000) (32)
- Long-term trends in habitat selection by Kentucky Warblers (1995) (32)
- An Evolutionary View of the Origins and Functions of Avian Vocal Communication (2000) (29)
- Vocal mimicry in the Thick-billed Euphonia (1976) (29)
- On Bluebird "Responses to Apparent Female Adultery" (1978) (28)
- Food and Migration Habits of the Eastern Kingbird in Panama (1971) (27)
- Effective Pollination of Erythrina Fusca by the Orchard Oriole (Icterus Spurius): Coevolved Behavioral Manipulation? (1979) (27)
- Animal Talk: Science and the Voices of Nature (1992) (26)
- Genetic Monogamy in Carolina Wrens (Thryothorus ludovicianus) (2001) (26)
- Degradation and signal ranging in birds: memory matters (1998) (24)
- INFANTICIDE AND OTHER ADAPTIONS OF THE NESTLING STRIPED CUCKOO TAPERA NAEVIA (2008) (24)
- THE EFFECTS OF DISTANCE AND ISOLATION ON SONG-TYPE SHARING IN THE CAROLINA WREN (1987) (23)
- Birds of Mexico and Central America (2007) (23)
- Comparison of the mating systems and breeding behavior of a resident and a migratory tropical flycatcher (2007) (22)
- A Previously Undescribed Method of Song Matching in a Species with a Single Song “Type”, the Kentucky Warbler (Oporornis formosus) (2010) (20)
- Song-type distribution in a population of Kentucky warblers (1988) (20)
- Territory size and stability in a sedentary neotropical passerine: is resource partitioning a necessary condition? (2005) (20)
- Parental conflict and brood desertion by females in blue-headed vireos (2010) (18)
- Population genetics and relatedness in a critically endangered island raptor, Ridgway’s Hawk Buteo ridgwayi (2013) (17)
- Breeding ecology and predictors of nest success in the Critically Endangered Ridgway’s Hawk Buteo ridgwayi (2014) (16)
- Animal Vocal Communication: Assessment and Management Roles (2017) (16)
- Adaptation of amplitude structure of songs to propagation in field habitat in song sparrows (2010) (16)
- Why songbirds learn songs: an arms race over ranging? (1996) (16)
- Avian population fluctuations during drought conditions in Puerto Rico (2004) (15)
- How a warbler chooses its habitat: field support for laboratory experiments (1993) (15)
- The function of seasonal song in a tropical resident species, the Red-throated Ant-tanager (Habia fuscicauda) (2014) (15)
- The Adaptive Significance of Dull Coloration in Yellow Warblers (1976) (14)
- FLOCKING AND FORAGING BEHAVIOR OF WINTERING PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS (2000) (14)
- Song ranging by incubating male Blue‐headed Vireos: the importance of song representation in repertoires and implications for song delivery patterns and local/foreign dialect discrimination (2006) (13)
- Do Blood Parasites Affect Paternity, Provisioning and Mate-Guarding in Purple Martins? (1997) (12)
- Bird-Mediated Fruit Dispersal in the Tropical Grass Genus Lasiacis (Gramineae: Paniceae)1 (1973) (12)
- Pairing in mallards and American black ducks: a new view on population decline in American black ducks (1998) (11)
- Commentary on "The Influence of Pitch Height on the Perception of Submissiveness and Threat in Musical Passages" by David Huron, Daryl Kinney, and Kristin Precoda (2006) (11)
- Female Hooded Warbler plumage does not become more male-like with age. (1989) (11)
- Studying paternity and paternal care: the value of negative results (1998) (10)
- The Function of Multiple Mating by Female Promethea Moths, Callosamia promethea (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) (2009) (10)
- NOTES ON FOOD HABITS OF THE BLACK AND WHITE OWL ’ (2001) (10)
- Nestling Sex Ratio in a Critically Endangered Dimorphic Raptor, Ridgway's Hawk (Buteo ridgwayi) (2013) (10)
- Roosting behavior of prothonotary warblers in the non-breeding season (1995) (10)
- Reply to Naguib and Wiley (1998) (10)
- Vocal Communication in Androgynous Territorial Defense by Migratory Birds (2012) (9)
- Feeding ecology and specialist diet of critically endangered Ridgway's Hawks (2013) (9)
- Seasonal variation in male testosterone levels in a tropical bird with year-round territoriality (2014) (9)
- Incubation delays territory defence by male blue-headed vireos, Vireo solitarius (2007) (8)
- Growing Points in Ethology by P. P. G. Bateson R. A. Hinde (1978) (8)
- Behavior and parentage of a White-throated Sparrow X Darked-eyed Junco hybrid (1994) (8)
- Social and genetic mating system of Ridgway's hawk (Buteo ridgwayi), an endemic raptor on Hispaniola (2013) (8)
- The use of cylinder oxygen in the organic micro-determination of nitrogen (1952) (7)
- Sexual selection for delayed size maturation in a bird exhibiting delayed plumage maturation (1997) (7)
- Putting Distance Back Into Bird Song With Mirror Neurons (2012) (6)
- COOPERATIVE BREEDING IN THE TROPICAL MOCKINGBIRD ( MIMUS GILVUS ) IN THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE (2004) (6)
- Mobbing behavior and fatal attacks on snakes by Fasciated Antshrikes (Cymbilaimus lineatus) (2017) (6)
- Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) (2020) (5)
- The biology of Torreornis inexpectata I. A comparison of vocalization in T.i. inexpectata and T. i. sigmani (1982) (5)
- Vocal Imitation in a Captive Purple Martin (1985) (5)
- The Significance of Mating System and Nonbreeding Behavior to Population and Forest Patch Use by Migrant Birds (2005) (4)
- Ecology And Behavior Of Some Panamanian Odonata (1977) (4)
- Are multiple infections more severe for Purple Martins than single infections (2006) (4)
- Red-throated Ant-Tanager (Habia fuscicauda) (2010) (3)
- THE BIOLOGY OF TORREORNIS INEXPECTATA I . A COMPARISON OF VOCALIZATIONS IN (2002) (2)
- EFFECTS OF MULCHING ON SOIL‐MOISTURE DEPLETION IN CITRUS ORCHARDS (1961) (2)
- Mechanisms and Proximate Processes of Vocal Communication (1998) (2)
- Growing points in Neotropical migratory bird conservation (1994) (2)
- Growth Rate and Energetics of Arabian Babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) Nestlings (2001) (2)
- Why are tropical birds interesting (2001) (1)
- ‘Innate’: Outdated and inadequate or linguistic convenience? (1988) (1)
- Animal Communication Theory: Mitogenetic rays and the information metaphor: transmitted information has had its day (2013) (1)
- Animal Communication: What Do Animals Say? (1983) (1)
- Is Multiple Mating by Female Promethea Moths (Callosamia promethea) (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) Fertility Insurance? (2017) (1)
- 7 – Biotic interactions (2001) (1)
- Animal Vocal Communication: The roles of assessment and management in communication (1998) (1)
- Characterization of 10 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the purple martin, Progne subis (2011) (1)
- Accession 08-118 Eugene S. Morton Papers, 1964, 1970s (1964) (0)
- Life history traits (2001) (0)
- 4 – Mating systems (2001) (0)
- Ecology and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds: A Synthesis and Review of Critical Issues Thomas E. Martin Deborah M. Finch (1996) (0)
- Robins Feeding on Hairy Caterpillars (1968) (0)
- Reviewers for the Auk 2010 (2010) (0)
- Reviewers for the Journal of Field Ornithology (2002) (0)
- Reviewers for the Auk 2012 (2012) (0)
- The Informationizing of Communication (2017) (0)
- Form and Function in Vocal Communication (2017) (0)
- The function of seasonal song in a tropical resident species, the Red-throated Ant-tanager (Habia fuscicauda) (2015) (0)
- Population genetics and relatedness in a critically endangered island raptor, Ridgway’s Hawk Buteo ridgwayi (2013) (0)
- Overview of ideas (1998) (0)
- REVIEWERS FOR THE AUK, 2004 (2004) (0)
- Divergence in the Mitochondrial DNA of Empidonax traiIIii and E. alnorum, with Notes on Hybridization (2003) (0)
- Animal Vocal Communication: Assessment/management: a viable replacement for the information concept (1998) (0)
- 2 – Breeding seasons (2001) (0)
- THE SMITHSONIAN BOOK OF BIRDS LORDS OF THE AIR JAKE PAGE AND (2008) (0)
- Latitude Does Matter in Behavioral Ecology@@@Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds (2001) (0)
- Assessment/Management: A Viable Replacement for the Metaphor of Transmitted Information (2017) (0)
- Mobbing behavior and fatal attacks on snakes by Fasciated Antshrikes (Cymbilaimus lineatus) (2017) (0)
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