Results 41 to 50 of about 5,521 (207)
A comprehensive account of sound sequence imitation in the songbird.
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2016 The amazing imitation capabilities of songbirds show that they can memorize sensory sequences and transform them into motor activities which in turn generate the original sound sequences.
Maren Westkott, Klaus R Pawelzik
doaj +1 more source
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Renewable energy is vital for reducing carbon emissions and yet its infrastructure poses challenges to biodiversity. While the impacts of wind power on bats and raptors are well‐studied, the effects on elusive species remain largely unknown. The Eurasian woodcock Scolopax rusticola, a nocturnal forest bird, performs characteristic courtship flights at ...
Jan O. Engler +6 more
wiley +1 more source
DNA metabarcoding reveals wolf dietary patterns in the northern Alps and Jura Mountains
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Understanding predator–prey interactions is crucial for wildlife management and human–wildlife coexistence, particularly in multi‐use landscapes such as western Europe. As wolves Canis lupus recolonize their former habitats, knowledge of their diet is essential for conservation, management and public acceptance.
Florin Kunz +6 more
wiley +1 more source
Lesions in a songbird vocal circuit increase variability in song syntax
eLifeComplex skills like speech and dance are composed of ordered sequences of simpler elements, but the neuronal basis for the syntactic ordering of actions is poorly understood.
Avani Koparkar +5 more
doaj +1 more source
A simple computational principle predicts vocal adaptation dynamics across age and error size
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2014 The brain uses sensory feedback to correct errors in behavior. Songbirds and humans acquire vocal behaviors by imitating the sounds produced by adults and rely on auditory feedback to correct vocal errors throughout their lifetimes.
Conor William Kelly, Samuel eSober
doaj +1 more source
Bird singing contests: Looking back on thirty years of research on a global conservation concern
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Keeping wild birds is a deeply engrained and widely prevalent cultural practice, with a history going back thousands of years. One of the more recent trends to emerge from this practice is the singing contest, which pits male birds against each other to ...
Benjamin H. Mirin, Holger Klinck
doaj +1 more source
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.Autonomous recording units (ARUs) are increasingly used for passive acoustic monitoring, but deploying them in remote or inaccessible locations remains challenging. We developed and field‐tested a lightweight, low‐cost floating platform for drone‐assisted deployment and retrieval of ARUs in wetland interiors.
Akshit R. Suthar +6 more
wiley +1 more source
The singing phenology of Bachman's sparrow: implications for monitoring programs
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.We used automated recording units, weather data, and multiple logistic regression with generalized estimating equations to determine the annual singing period and influences on singing behavior of Bachman's sparrow in Texas, USA, surveying daily for 2 years.
Liam G. Wolff +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Diet, phenology and body size shape nutrient release by songbirds
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Animals can dramatically alter ecosystem structure and function through the cycling and transport of nutrients in their waste. While birds are particularly capable of influencing nutrient cycles due to their high mobility, abundance, metabolism and functional diversity,
Linsey Chen +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Nomadic movements of migratory birds are difficult to study, as the scale is beyond the capabilities of hand-held telemetry (10 s of kms) but too fine-scale for long-range tracking devices like geolocators (50–100 km accuracy).
Emily A. Mckinnon +5 more
doaj +1 more source