2006

Searcy, W. A., R. C. Anderson, and S. Nowicki. In press. Bird song as a signal of aggressive intent. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Searcy, W. A., and S. Nowicki. In press. Signal interception and the use of soft song in aggressive interactions. Ethology.

Anderson, R.C., W.A. Searcy and S. Nowicki. Submitted. Testing the function of song matching in birds: Responses of eastern male song sparrows Melospiza melodia to partial song matching.

2005

Nowicki, S. and W. A. Searcy. 2005. Adaptive priorities in brain development: theoretical comment of Pravosudov et al. (2005). Behavioral Neuroscience 119:1415-1418.

Searcy, W.A. and Nowicki, S., 2005. The Evolution of Animal Communication: Reliability and Deception in Signaling Systems (Monographs in Behavior and Ecology). Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 288 pages. ISBN: 0691070954

Anderson, R.C., Searcy, W.A. & Nowicki, S. Partial song matching in an eastern population of song sparrows Melospiza melodia . Animal Behaviour, Vol 69(1), 189-195. PDF .

2004

Nowicki, S, Searcy , WA . 2004. Song function and the evolution of female preferences: Why birds sing, and why brains matter. pp 704-723 in H. P. Zeigler and P. Marler (eds) Behavioral Neurobiology of Birdsong. New York Academy of Sciences , New York .

Searcy WA, Peters S, Nowicki S. Effects of early nutrition on growth rate and adult size in song sparrows Melospiza melodia. JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY 35 (3): 269-279 MAY 2004.

Hyman J, Hughes M, Searcy WA, et al. Individual variation in the strength of territory defense in male song sparrows: Correlates of age, territory tenure, and neighbor aggressiveness. BEHAVIOUR 141: 15-27 Part 1 JAN 2004.

2003

Searcy WA, Nowicki S, Peters S. Phonology and geographic song discrimination in song sparrows ETHOLOGY 109 (1): 23-35 JAN 2003.

2002

Nowicki S, Searcy WA, Peters S. Brain development, song learning and mate choice in birds: a review and experimental test of the "nutritional stress hypothesis". JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY 188 (11-2): 1003-1014 DEC 2002.

Nowicki S, Searcy WA, Peters S. Quality of song learning affects female response to male bird song. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 269 (1503): 1949-1954 SEP 22 2002.

Nowicki S, Searcy WA, Krueger T, et al. Individual variation in response to simulated territorial challenge among territory-holding song sparrows. JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY 33 (3): 253-259 SEP 2002.

Searcy WA, Nowicki S, Hughes M, et al. Geographic song discrimination in relation to dispersal distances in song sparrows. AMERICAN NATURALIST 159 (3): 221-230 MAR 2002.

2001

Nowicki S, Searcy WA, Hughes M, et al. The evolution of bird song: male and female response to song innovation in swamp sparrows. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 62: 1189-1195 Part 6 DEC 2001.

Pribil S, Searcy WA. Experimental confirmation of the polygyny threshold model for red-winged blackbirds. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 268 (1476): 1643-1646 AUG 7 2001.

2000

Searcy WA and S Nowicki. Male-male competition and female choice in the evolution of vocal signaling, in Animal Signals: Signalling and Signal Design in Animal Communication, pp.301-315, edited by Y Espmark, T Amundsen and G Rosenqvist (2000), Tapir Academic Press: Trondheim (pp. 301-315.).

Searcy WA, Nowicki S, Hogan C. Song type variants and aggressive context. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY 48 (5): 358-363 OCT 2000.

Peters S, Searcy WA, Beecher MD, et al. Geographic variation in the organization of Song Sparrow repertoires. AUK 117 (4): 936-942 OCT 2000.

1999

Nowicki S, Searcy WA, Hughes M, et al. Sexual selection limits evolutionary innovation in birdsong. AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST 39 (5): 665 Sp. Iss. SI 1999.

Melman DS, Searcy WA. Microgeographic song discrimination in a nonterritorial passerine, the Boat-tailed Grackle. CONDOR 101 (4): 845-848 NOV 1999.

Searcy WA, Nowicki S, Peters S. Song types as fundamental units in vocal repertoires. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 58: 37-44 Part 1 JUL 1999.

Nowicki S, Peters S, Searcy WA, et al. The development of within-song type variation in song sparrows. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 57: 1257-1264 Part 6 JUN 1999.

Searcy WA, Yasukawa K, Lanyon S. Evolution of polygyny in the ancestors of red-winged blackbirds. AUK 116 (1): 5-19 JAN 1999.

1998

Nowicki S, Searcy WA, Hughes M. The territory defense function of song in song sparrows: A test with the speaker occupation design. BEHAVIOUR 135: 615-628 Part 5 JUL 1998.

Hughes M, Nowicki S, Searcy WA, et al. Song-type sharing in song sparrows: implications for repertoire function and song learning. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY 42 (6): 437-446 JUN 1998.

1997

Searcy WA, Nowicki S, Hughes M. The response of male and female song sparrows to geographic variation in song. CONDOR 99 (3): 651-657 AUG 1997.

Searcy WA, Capp MS. Estradiol dosage and the solicitation display assay in Red-winged Blackbirds. CONDOR 99 (3): 826-828 AUG 1997.

1996

Searcy WA, Yasukawa K. The reproductive success of secondary females relative to that of monogamous and primary females in Red-winged Blackbirds. JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY 27 (3): 225-230 SEP 1996.

Johnson LS, Searcy WA. Female attraction to male song in house wrens (Troglodytes aedon). BEHAVIOUR 133: 357-366 Part 5-6 MAY 1996.

Searcy WA. Sound-pressure levels and song preferences in female red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) (Aves, Emberizidae). ETHOLOGY 102 (3): 187-196 MAR 1996.

Searcy WA. Bird song: Biological themes and variations - Catchpole,CK, Slater,PJB ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 51: 492-493 Part 2 FEB 1996.

1995

Searcy WA, Podos J, Peters S, et al. Discrimination of song types and variants in song sparrows. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 49 (5): 1219-1226 MAY 1995.