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Titre :	The song of the Cinnamon-breasted Bunting, Emberiza tahapisi, in the Bamenda Highlands (NW Cameroon)
Auteurs :	Tomasz S. Osiejuk, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Journal of Ornithology (152(3) JUL 2011)
Article en page(s) :	651-659
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	In this study, I describe the song of the Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (Emberiza tahapisi)-a common and widespread species in sub-Saharan Africa. Several aspects of song behaviour were addressed based on recordings of 58 males in the Bamenda Highlands (NW Cameroon). The song of the Cinnamon-breasted Bunting is discontinuous and consists of short (1.2 s on average), relatively broadband (range 2.5-9.2 kHz) strophes repeated at a highly variable rate (2-14 strophes per minute). Each male sang a single song type consisting of 4-9 different syllable types. Syllable types differed in acoustic structure, and I describe a total of

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