Research References
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Here are the references I've used so far for my research on "The functional anatomy of the hearing system of (non-)echolocating swiftlets (Apodidae: Collocaliini)".
Bäckman, J., Alerstam, T., 2001. Confronting the winds: orientation and flight  
behaviour of roosting swifts, Apus apus.
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 268: 1081-1087.

Bradbury, J.W., Vehrencamp, S.L., 1998. Principles of animal communication:  
Properties of sound (chapter 2). Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Bradbury, J.W., Vehrencamp, S.L., 1998. Principles of animal communication:
Fourier analysis (chapter 3). Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Bradbury, J.W., Vehrencamp, S.L., 1998. Principles of animal communication:
Sound production (chapter 4). Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Bradbury, J.W., Vehrencamp, S.L., 1998. Principles of animal communication:
Sound propagation (chapter 5). Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Bradbury, J.W., Vehrencamp, S.L., 1998. Principles of animal communication:
Sound reception (chapter 6). Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Bradbury, J.W., Vehrencamp, S.L., 1998. Principles of animal communication:
Autocommunication (chapter 26). Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Chantler, P., Driessens, G., 1995. Swifts, a guide to the swifts and treeswifts of
the world. Pica Press.

Cohen, Y.E., Hernandez H.N., 1992. Middle ear development: II. Morphometric
changes in the conducting apparatus of the chick.
J. of Morphology 212: 257-267.

Dusenbery, D.B., 1992. Sensory ecology, how organisms acquire and respond
to information: Stimulus transmission (chapter 4). W.H. Freeman & Co.

Dusenbery, D.B., 1992. Sensory ecology, how organisms acquire and respond
to information: Signal detection (chapter 5). W.H. Freeman & Co.

Dusenbery, D.B., 1992. Sensory ecology, how organisms acquire and respond
to information: Sound (chapter 9). W.H. Freeman & Co.

Dusenbery, D.B., 1992. Sensory ecology, how organisms acquire and respond
to information: Sounding (chapter 12). W.H. Freeman & Co.

Dusenbery, D.B., 1992. Sensory ecology, how organisms acquire and respond
to information: Guiding (chapter 17). W.H. Freeman & Co.

Griffin, D.R., Suthers, R.A., 1970. Sensitivity of echolocation in cave swiftlets.
The Biological Bulletin 139 (3): 495-501.

Knudsen, E.I., Konishi, M., 1979. Mechanisms of sound localization in the barn
owl (Tyto alba).
J. Comp. Physiol. 133: 13-21.

Kühne, R., Lewis, B., 1985. Form and function in bird: External and midle ears
(chapter 5).

Lee, P.L.M., Clayton, D.H., Griffiths, R., Page, R.D.M., 1996. Does behavior
reflect phylogeny in swiftlets (Aves; Apodidae)? A test using cytochrome b mitochondrial DNA sequences.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93: 7091-7096.

Leon Harris, C., 1996. Concepts in zoology. Second Edition, HarperCollins
College Publishers, Inc. 

Medway, L., 1959. Echo-location among Collocalia.
Nature 184: 1352-1353.

Mills, R., 1994. Applied comparative anatomy of the avian middle ear.
J. of the
Royal Society of Medicine
87: 155-156.

Novick, A., 1959. Acoustic orientation in the cave swiftlet.
Biol. Bull. 117: 497-
503.

Oeckinghaus, H., Schwartzkopff, J., 1983. Electrical and acoustical activation
of the middle ear muscle in a songbird.
J. Comp. Physiol. 150: 61-67.

Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R., 1997. Evolution of the ear and hearing: Issues and
questions.
Brain Behav. Evol. 50: 213-221.

Rosowski, J.J., Saunders, J.C., 1980. Sound transmission through the avian
interaural pathways.
J. Comp. Physiol. 136: 183-190.

Saunders, J., 1985. Auditory structure and function in the bird middle ear: An
evaluation by SEM and capacitive probe.
Hearing Research 18: 253-268.

Smith, C.A., 1985. Form and function in birds: Inner ear (chapter 6).

Spaendonck, M.P. van, Cryns, K., Heyning, P.H. van de, Scheuermann, D.W., Camp, G. van, Timmermans, J.-P., 2000. High resolution imaging of the mouse inner ear by microtomogaphy: A new tool in inner ear research.
The Anatomical Record 256: 229-236.

Starck, J.M., 1992. Towards a model of the functional morphology af the avian
middle ear – the transfer funktion.
Zool. Jb. Anat. 122: 287-302.

Starck, J.M., 1995. Comparative anatomy of the external and middle ear of
palaeognathous birds.

Thomassen, H.A., Wiersema, A.T, Bakker, M.A.G., Knijff, P. de, Hetebrij, E., Povel, G.D.E., 2003. A new phylogeny of swiftlets (Aves: Apodidae) based on
cytochrome-b DNA.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29: 86-93.

Thomassen, H.A., Djasim, U.M., Povel, G.D.E., 2004. Echoclick design in
swiftlets: single as well as double clicks.
Ibis 146: 173-174.
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