Flight distance of urban birds, predation, and selection for urban life

By A. Møller. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology

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Growing in Cities: An Urban Penalty for Wild Birds? A Study of Phenotypic Differences between Urban and Rural Great Tit Chicks (Parus major) (2017, neutral): “Comparative studies have allowed ecologists to determine the specific characteristics that may be compatible with an urban way of life in wild vertebrates (Møller, 2008, 2009; Evans et al., 2011; Sol et al., 2013; Jokimäki et al., 2016).”
Antipredator strategies of house finches: are urban habitats safe spots from predators even when humans are around? (2009, result): “the predictions of the safe-habitat hypothesis and the findings of previous studies showing that several European birds were more tolerant of human approaches in rural/ suburban than in rural areas (Cooke 1980; Møller 2008).”
Urban areas as refuges from predators and flight distance of prey (2012, background): “Grell (1998) provides maps of the density of breeding birds based on systematic point counts of breeding birds carried out by hundreds of amateurs, allowing estimates of the mean density of breeding prey species in the study areas of Nielsen (2004). Such point counts provide reliable estimates of br”
Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes. (2012, background): “2010; Moller 2010) and that cautious species (that flee before humans come close) are more susceptible to human disturbance and more likely to exhibit declining population sizes (Moller 2008).”
Risk-taking behavior, urbanization and the pace of life in birds (2018, background): “To record FIDs, the observer located an individual bird with binoculars and subsequently moved at a normal walking speed towards the individual, while counting the number of steps (which approximately equals the number of meters (Møller 2008)).”
Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds (2015, background): “Thus, as in urban areas increased boldness toward anthropogenic disturbances is hypothesized to be beneficial (MØller 2008), such bold behaviour may not be adaptive as a response to predators.”
Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments (2013, background): “A number of avian studies comparing disturbance tolerance between urban and rural individuals have found that urban birds are less wary than rural conspecifics (Cooke, 1980; Traut & Hostetler, 2003; Donaldson et al., 2007; Møller, 2008; Evans et al., 2010; Kitchen et al., 2010; Lowry et al., 2011).”
Escape behaviour of birds provides evidence of predation being involved in urbanization (2012, methodology): “Flight distances of birds when approached by a human differ consistently between rural and urban populations, with distances twice as long in rural compared with urban habitats (Cooke 1980; Møller 2008a; Carrete & Tella 2011).”
Understanding variation in behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change: a conceptual overview (2013, background): “Bolder animals have higher response thresholds for avoiding danger and should thus be more likely to exploit novel opportunities (e.g. invade urban habitats: Møller 2008, 2010; McCleery 2009; Evans et al. 2010) than fearful, reactive individuals, but also more likely to ignore novel predators.”