Song type variations of Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) and their geographic distributions.

Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) is a familiar singer in the Western Hemisphere family Parulidae, yet apparent geographic variations in its song and potentially related causal mechanisms have not received detailed examination in previously published studies. Here, we analyzed song pattern...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2aaa6237bba043a69dd5481ad53f7c242021-12-02T20:08:45ZSong type variations of Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) and their geographic distributions.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0256385https://doaj.org/article/2aaa6237bba043a69dd5481ad53f7c242021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256385https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) is a familiar singer in the Western Hemisphere family Parulidae, yet apparent geographic variations in its song and potentially related causal mechanisms have not received detailed examination in previously published studies. Here, we analyzed song pattern variations of 651 Louisiana Waterthrush singers in audio spectrogram recordings obtained from our field work and publicly accessible bioacoustics archives. Visual and auditory assessment of the introductory note sequence of each song identified three distinct song types (A, B, and C) and most of the songs were assigned to one of these types. Linear Discriminant Analysis and Random Forest methods were used to verify the assignments and showed strong agreement for Type A with slightly less agreement on Types B and C. User error rates (proportion of the Linear Discriminant Analysis classifications that were incorrect) were low for Types A and B, and somewhat higher for Type C, while producer error rates (proportion of the song type for which the Linear Discriminant Analysis was incorrect) were somewhat higher for Types A and C than the minimal levels achieved for Type B. Our findings confirmed that most between-individual variation was in the number of notes and note sequence duration while most within-individual variation resulted from the percent of downstrokes. The location of each singer was plotted on a map of the breeding range and results suggested the song types have large-scale discrete geographic distributions that co-occur in some regions but not range-wide. Evaluation of the distributions provided tentative support for a hypothesis that two of the song types may independently exhibit congruence with the geographic extent of Pleistocene glacial boundaries and the third song type may be distinguished by a lack of congruence, but further investigation is needed to elucidate whether the song variations represent subpopulations with three separate evolutionary histories.W Ross SilcockShari L SchwartzJohn U CarliniStephen J DinsmorePublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0256385 (2021)
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W Ross Silcock
Shari L Schwartz
John U Carlini
Stephen J Dinsmore
Song type variations of Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) and their geographic distributions.
description Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) is a familiar singer in the Western Hemisphere family Parulidae, yet apparent geographic variations in its song and potentially related causal mechanisms have not received detailed examination in previously published studies. Here, we analyzed song pattern variations of 651 Louisiana Waterthrush singers in audio spectrogram recordings obtained from our field work and publicly accessible bioacoustics archives. Visual and auditory assessment of the introductory note sequence of each song identified three distinct song types (A, B, and C) and most of the songs were assigned to one of these types. Linear Discriminant Analysis and Random Forest methods were used to verify the assignments and showed strong agreement for Type A with slightly less agreement on Types B and C. User error rates (proportion of the Linear Discriminant Analysis classifications that were incorrect) were low for Types A and B, and somewhat higher for Type C, while producer error rates (proportion of the song type for which the Linear Discriminant Analysis was incorrect) were somewhat higher for Types A and C than the minimal levels achieved for Type B. Our findings confirmed that most between-individual variation was in the number of notes and note sequence duration while most within-individual variation resulted from the percent of downstrokes. The location of each singer was plotted on a map of the breeding range and results suggested the song types have large-scale discrete geographic distributions that co-occur in some regions but not range-wide. Evaluation of the distributions provided tentative support for a hypothesis that two of the song types may independently exhibit congruence with the geographic extent of Pleistocene glacial boundaries and the third song type may be distinguished by a lack of congruence, but further investigation is needed to elucidate whether the song variations represent subpopulations with three separate evolutionary histories.
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author W Ross Silcock
Shari L Schwartz
John U Carlini
Stephen J Dinsmore
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Shari L Schwartz
John U Carlini
Stephen J Dinsmore
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title Song type variations of Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) and their geographic distributions.
title_short Song type variations of Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) and their geographic distributions.
title_full Song type variations of Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) and their geographic distributions.
title_fullStr Song type variations of Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) and their geographic distributions.
title_full_unstemmed Song type variations of Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) and their geographic distributions.
title_sort song type variations of louisiana waterthrush (parkesia motacilla) and their geographic distributions.
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