caa a22 4500 465782906 CHVBK 20180323112000.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00168450 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00168450 Mate sampling behaviour of female pied flycatchers: evidence for active mate choice [Elektronische Daten] [Svein Dale, Trond Amundsen, Jan Lifjeld, Tore Slagsvold] Summary: This paper presents major new evidence for active mate choice of female pied flycatchers, Ficedula hypoleuca. Fifteen color-ringed females were released into a study area containing 23 unmated males defending one nestbox each. Through intensive surveillance, the behavior of the females was observed during 2 consecutive days. Twenty-two of the males received a total of 131 female visits. Six of the females settled in the study area, and their premating period lasted 1.3-2.5 days. The females were seen searching for mates for at least 6-32 h and were seen visiting at least 1-9 different males. Hence, some of the females rejected males before mating. Nevertheless, the females settled close to the site of release (range: 16-243 m), suggesting that they mated with one of the first males encountered. Females visited males most frequently in the morning, and the diurnal distribution of visits was significantly correlated with male song activity. Springer-Verlag, 1990 Dale Svein Zoological Museum, University of Oslo, Sars gt. 1, N-0562, Oslo 5, Norway aut Amundsen Trond Zoological Museum, University of Oslo, Sars gt. 1, N-0562, Oslo 5, Norway aut Lifjeld Jan Zoological Museum, University of Oslo, Sars gt. 1, N-0562, Oslo 5, Norway aut Slagsvold Tore Zoological Museum, University of Oslo, Sars gt. 1, N-0562, Oslo 5, Norway aut Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Springer-Verlag 27/2(1990-08-01), 87-91 0340-5443 27:2<87 1990 27 265 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00168450 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00168450 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dale Svein Zoological Museum, University of Oslo, Sars gt. 1, N-0562, Oslo 5, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Amundsen Trond Zoological Museum, University of Oslo, Sars gt. 1, N-0562, Oslo 5, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lifjeld Jan Zoological Museum, University of Oslo, Sars gt. 1, N-0562, Oslo 5, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Slagsvold Tore Zoological Museum, University of Oslo, Sars gt. 1, N-0562, Oslo 5, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Springer-Verlag 27/2(1990-08-01), 87-91 0340-5443 27:2<87 1990 27 265 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer