The Adaptive Significance of Avian Mobbing

By E. Frankenberg. 2010

132 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3294c075278b49284c85b698fff0116a711af061

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In Developmental Biology

1. Chad M. Soard
2. G. Ritchison
3. Toshitaka N. Suzuki

In Ecology

1. Chad M. Soard
2. G. Ritchison

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Chad M. Soard
2. G. Ritchison
3. Toshitaka N. Suzuki

Citations in the corpus

• ‘Chick-a-dee’ calls of Carolina chickadees convey information about degree of threat posed by avian predators (2009, background): “In support of this hypothesis, evidence suggests that mobbing calls may agitate and stress predatory raptors (Shalter 1978; Flasskamp 1994).”
• Vocal mimicry in songbirds (2008, unknown): “…include potential predators that are deterred from attacking the mimic by the threat of encountering another predator (Vernon 1973; Dobkin 1979), or are perhaps confused as to the identity of their proposed prey by the conflicting acoustic signals coming from the mimic (Harcus 1977; Curio 1978).”