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Other sounds include a nested call (cooOOoo) by paired males to attract their female mates to the nest sites, a greeting call (a soft ork) by males upon rejoining their mates, and an alarm call (a short roo-oo) by either a male or female when threatened. In flight, the wings make a fluttery whistling sound that is hard to hear.
Copulatory calls in primates serve an adaptive function and are sexually selected. [3] Calling signals sexual receptivity of the female and therefore affects mate choice. There are many different hypotheses as to the exact adaptive function of female copulatory calls in primates and research on the subject is still in its early stages. [2]
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"Cucurrucucú paloma" (Spanish for Coo-coo dove) is a Mexican huapango-style song written by Tomás Méndez in 1954. [1] The title is an onomatopeic reference to the characteristic call of the mourning dove, which is evoked in the refrain.
Calls are sometimes distinctive enough for individual identification even by human researchers in ecological studies. [31] Call of black-capped chickadee (note the call and response with a second more distant chickadee) Over 400 bird species engage in duet calls. [32] In some cases, the duets are so perfectly timed as to appear almost as one call.
Stevie Nicks famously sang about the "white-winged dove" in her 1981 hit "Edge of Seventeen," but she'd apparently never actually heard one sing … until now:> In 1980 I was flying home from ...
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The laughing dove (Spilopelia senegalensis) is a small pigeon that is a resident breeder in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Western Australia where it has established itself in the wild after being released from Perth Zoo in 1898. [2]