Kroodsma has a really interesting chapter on duetting Carolina Wrens and
Cardinals in his book "The Singing Life of Birds".  By the way, I very
highly recommend that book for anyone who's interested in bird song.  To
most people it probably sounds like it would be a rather dull read, but
it's not.  It's well written and utterly fascinating.  It's one of my
favorite bird-related books (along with Weidensaul's "Living on the
Wind", which is also great).

jonathon



On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 09:56 -0600, marshall or janet howe/mcmillen
wrote:
> Two U.S. species I have heard duetting are Carolina wrens and great crested
> flycatchers.  The latter is particularly interesting, because duetting
> mainly occurs in non-migratory species with long-term pair bonds.  Great
> crested flycatchers are highly migratory, though many other members of
> their genus, *Myiarchus*, are tropical and sedentary.
> 
> Marshall Howe
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: G Andersson <gpandersson@msn.com>
> Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:50 PM
> Subject: [mou-net] plain-tailed wren duet research--- from Science Now
> To: MOU-NET@lists.umn.edu
> 
> 
> This article reports research on the duet singing of this wren species from
> Ecuador.  Given its name, could this be the only wren species without a
> barred tail?   Anyway there are links in the text to listen to the duet and
> the single song.. also a link to the original journal article for those who
> like neurology.  I don't think there are any duetting bird species in N
> America, but there are in Africa.  I would guess their finding apply to all
> such species worldwide, but who knows?

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