(Table 1) Mean statistics for acoustic parameters measured for both brown skua (Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi) sexes

• Main Authors: Janicke, Tim, Ritz, Markus S, Hahn, Steffen, Peter, Hans-Ulrich
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: Amplitude; standard deviation; Bandwidth; Biological sample; BIOS; Duration; Frequency; Number; Percentage; Potter_Pen; Potter Peninsula; King George Island; Western Antarctica; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; Relief type; Repetition rate; Sex; Species; common name; SPP1158; Time in seconds; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Brown Skua; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.848403; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.848403

Bird vocalisations are often essential for sex recognition, especially in species that show little morphological sex dimorphism. Brown skuas (Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi), which exhibit uniform plumage across both sexes, emit three main calls: the long call, the alarm call and the contact call....