A mutual understanding? Interspecific responses by birds to each other's aerial alarm calls

By R. Magrath, B. Pitcher, J. Gardner. 2007

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Eavesdropping on other species: mutual interspecific understanding of urgency information in avian alarm calls (2010, methodology): “Playbacks were broadcast at an element amplitude of around 61 dB at 5 m, which is above but within 1 SD of the mean amplitude of alarm elements of both scrubwrens and fairy-wrens (Magrath et al. 2007).”
Animal Communication and Noise (2013, background): “Interestingly, birds not only understand the calls of conspecifics but they can also glean information from the alarm calls of other bird species (e.g. Krams and Krama 2002; Magrath et al. 2007; Goodale and Kotagama 2008; Haff and Magrath 2013; Wheatcroft and Price 2013) and even of primates (Rainey”
Chapter 8 Survivor Signals (2009, background): “Results showed that both species responded to each other’s alarm calls with appropriate antipredator behavior (Magrath et al., 2007).”
‘Chick-a-dee’ calls of Carolina chickadees convey information about degree of threat posed by avian predators (2009, background): “1993), superb starlings, Spreo superbus (Seyfarth & Cheney 1990), and several other bird species (Marler 1955; Magrath et al. 2007).”
Reed warblers discriminate cuckoos from sparrowhawks with graded alarm signals that attract mates and neighbours (2008, background): “Here we build on Duckworth’s previous study by considering two new questions: first, do reed warblers have an alarm call specific for cuckoos, as yellow warblers have for cowbirds? Second, do their alarm calls attract mates and neighbours (Grim 2008)? Clearly, mates have a joint interest in defence ”
An avian eavesdropping network: alarm signal reliability and heterospecific response (2009, methodology): “Fairy-wren and scrubwren alarm calls consisted of 4 elements, which lay within the natural range of each species (Magrath et al. 2007), whereas honeyeater calls consisted of 8 elements, again within their higher natural range (Magrath et al. 2009).”
Sound familiar? Acoustic similarity provokes responses to unfamiliar heterospecific alarm calls (2011, methodology): “Although fairy-wrens in our study site respond strongly to scrubwren calls (Magrath et al. 2007; Fallow and Magrath 2010), a population of fairywrens living in the absence of scrubwrens did not respond to playback of scrubwren calls indicating urgent danger (Magrath et al. 2009b), implying that…”
On the Meaning of Alarm Calls: A Review of Functional Reference in Avian Alarm Calling (2013, background): “…of species respond with appropriate escape behaviours to predator-specific alarm calls of primates (Rainey et al. 2004) and other bird species (e.g. Magrath et al. 2007; Fallow & Magrath 2010; Magrath & Bennett 2012), which suggests heterospecific alarm calls may function referentially even in…”
Heterospecific eavesdropping in a nonsocial species (2008, unknown): “1—Isbell (2005), 2—Cheney and Seyfarth (1985), 3—Seyfarth et al. (1980), 4—Rainey et al. (2004), 5—Rasa (1983), 6—Randler (2006), 7—Greene and Meag her (1998), 8—Wauters and Dhondt (1992), 9—Coss et al. (2007), 10—Ramakrishnan and Coss (2000), 11— Magrath et al. (2007) , 12—Lawler et al. (2005), 13—”
Response to conspecific and heterospecific alarm calls in mixed-species bird flocks of a Sri Lankan rainforest (2008, unknown): “recent playback study (Magrath et al. 2007) demonstrated that”