Female red‐winged blackbirds sing two distinct song types. Field observations and playback experiments indicate that Type 1 female song is sung chiefly in the presence of mates and probably functions in pair‐bond maintenance, while Type 2 song is sung chiefly in the presence of female conspecifics, and appears to be aggressive in nature.
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Les D. Beletsky (1983) studied this question.