Publications of Nao Ota

Soma, M.; Nakatani, M.; Ota, N.: Choice of props for courtship dancing in estrildid finches. Scientific Reports 15, 219 (2025)

Ota, N.: A comparison of nest-site characteristics for two sympatric Estrildid finches (Uraeginthus spp.) in Tanzania. Ecology and Evolution 12 (10), e9398 (2022)

Ota, N.; Gahr, M.: Context-sensitive dance-vocal displays affect song patterns and partner responses in a socially monogamous songbird. Ethology 128 (1), pp. 61 - 69 (2022)

Ota, N.: Tap dancers in the wild: Field observations of multimodal courtship displays in socially monogamous songbirds. The Science of Nature 107, 30 (2020)

Ota, N.; Gahr, M.; Soma, M.: Couples showing off: Audience promotes both male and female multimodal courtship display in a songbird. Science Advances 4 (10), eaat4779 (2018)

Ota, N.; Gahr, M.; Soma, M.: Songbird tap dancing produces non-vocal sounds. Bioacoustics 26 (2), pp. 161 - 168 (2017)

Ota, N.; Gahr, M.; Soma, M.: Tap dancing birds: The multimodal mutual courtship display of males and females in a socially monogamous songbird. Scientific Reports 5, 16614 (2015)

Ota, N.; Soma, M.: Age‐dependent song changes in a closed‐ended vocal learner: Elevation of song performance after song crystallization. Journal of Avian Biology 45 (6), pp. 566 - 573 (2014)

Ota, N.; Soma, M.: Vibrational signals in multimodal courtship displays of birds. In: Biotremology: Physiology, ecology, and evolution, pp. 237 - 259 (Eds. Hill, P.S.M.; Mazzoni, V.; Stritih-Peljhan, N.; Virant-Doberlet, M.; Wessel, A.). Springer, Cham (2022)