Reed warblers discriminate cuckoos from sparrowhawks with graded alarm signals that attract mates and neighbours

By J. Welbergen, Nicholas B. Davies. 2008

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

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Semantic communication in birds: evidence from field research over the past two decades (2016, background): “2012), and Phylloscopidae (Wheatcroft and Price 2015), but this does not hold true for all host species (Welbergen and Davies 2008).”
Chapter 8 Survivor Signals (2009, background): “For example, reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) give the same alarm calls to common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus, a nest parasite), and sparrow hacks (Accipiter nisus, a predator), but call usage varies with distance from the nest (Welbergen and Davies, 2008).”
On the Meaning of Alarm Calls: A Review of Functional Reference in Avian Alarm Calling (2013, background): “For example, many birds utter multiple discrete alarm calls when defending their nests, with the calls given interchangeably within a predator encounter (e.g. Grieg-Smith 1980; Knight & Temple 1986; Neudorf & Sealy 1992; Welbergen & Davies 2008).”
The wages of violence: mobbing by mockingbirds as a frontline defence against brood-parasitic cowbirds (2013, background): “…respond to them aggressively (Robertson & Norman 1976; Payne et al. 1985; McLean 1987; Briskie & Sealy 1989; Moksnes et al. 1991; Briskie et al. 1992; Mark & Stutchbury 1994; Webster 1994; Soler et al. 1999; Welbergen & Davies 2008; Fiorini et al. 2009a; Langmore et al. 2012; Trnka & Prokop 2012).”
Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning (2011, background): “Mobbing also alerts neighbouring hosts (Welbergen & Davies, 2008), who then may increase their mobbing of cuckoos at their own nests (Davies & Welbergen, 2009).”
Referential mobbing calls elicit different predator-searching behaviours in Japanese great tits (2012, background): “In addition, graded alternation of call structures may be associated with threat level rather than risk type (Welbergen & Davies 2008; Sieving et al. 2010).”
Advances in the Study of Coevolution Between Avian Brood Parasites and Their Hosts (2014, background): “Others produce a more urgent version of a generalized alarm response (Neudorf & Sealy 1992, Welbergen & Davies 2008) or do not appear to react to brood parasites as unique from other nest threats (Neudorf & Sealy 1992).”
Alarm calls of tufted titmice convey information about predator size and threat (2010, background): “…alarm calls may provide specific information about the type of predator present (functionally referential; Pereira and Macedonia 1991; Kirchhof and Hammerschmidt 2006), the level of threat a predator poses (urgency based; Welbergen and Davies 2008), or both (Manser et al. 2002; Griesser 2008).”