Birdsong

Miscellaneous

• Atlas (Stereotaxic) of Zebra Finch Brain.
• Behavioral Neurobiology of Birdsong Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1016, 2004.
• AvianBrain.org
• BirdChat.
• Books:
  • Birdsong by Don Stap (Scribner, 2005).
  • The Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich (Cliff Street Books, 1999).
  • Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song by David Rotherberg. This website associated with the book contains recordings of birdsongs.
• Birdsong examples:
  • Starling Media, songs of European starlings.
  • Lyrebird video of David Attenborough. How does the lyrebird imitate novel sounds so well? Does the lyrebird have to practice to do so well?
• Life of Birds television series by Sir David Attenborough.
• Sound Analysis Pro project of Ofer Tchernichovski's lab.
• Songbird Neurogenomics Initiative.
• STRFPak, package of Theunissen lab for esimating spatio- and spectro-temporal receptive fields.
• Talk Bank.
• Triangle Birder's Guide.

People:

• Sarah Bottjer.
• Zhiyi Chi.
• David Clayton.
• Allison Doupe.
• Michale Fee.
• Tim Gentner.
• Franz Goller.
• Dezhe Jin at Penn State.
• Frank Johnson.
• Masakazu Konishi.
• Michael Lewicki.
• Dan Margoliash.
• Gabriel Mindlin.
• Partha Mitra.
• Richard Mooney.
• Teresa Nick.
• Fernando Nottebohm.
• Steve Nowicki.
• Kazuo Okanoya.
• David J. Perkel.
• Constance Scharff.
• Mark Schmidt.
• Kamal Sen.
• Ofer Tchernichovski. See also the Sound Analysis computer software.
• Todd Troyer.
• Erik Vu.