THE IMPORTANCE OF CERTAIN ASSEMBLAGES OF BIRDS AS “INFORMATION‐CENTRES” FOR FOOD‐FINDING

By Peter Ward, A. Zahavi. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• Aerial flocking patterns of wintering starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, under different predation risk (2009, unknown): “…decisions in the short term, being based on direct individual perception, on the predictability of predator presence and on the observation of other birds in the flock or in other flocks (signalling hypothesis, Ward & Zahavi 1973; Richner & Heeb 1995; public information, Danchin et al. 2004).”
• Seabird foraging behaviour indicates prey type (2008, background): “Early theoretical formulations of foraging ecology characterized animals as naïve foragers, randomly encountering prey items while foraging (MacArthur & Pianka 1966, Ward & Zahavi 1973, Orians & Pearson 1979).”
• Beyond the information centre hypothesis: communal roosting for information on food, predators, travel companions and mates? (2010, background): “to safety from predators Ward and Zahavi (1973) argued (1) that roosts and breeding colonies could act as information”