Flight-initiation distance in birds is dependent on intruder starting distance

By Daniel T. Blumstein. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Rural-Urban Differences in Escape Behavior of European Birds across a Latitudinal Gradient (2017, background): “Thus, it is not expected that prey tradeoff risks against costs, but rather flee immediately (Blumstein, 2003; Cooper and Blumstein, 2015).”
Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear : how life history and natural history traits affect disturbance tolerance in birds (2006, methodology): “Methods follow those reported in Blumstein (2003) and Blumstein et al. (2004a, 2005).”
A review of flight-initiation distances and their application to managing disturbance to Australian birds (2012, unknown): “Standardisation of the FID measuring protocol would enhance compatibility of different datasets and we advocate that the simple method described by Blumstein (2003) should be adopted whenever possible.”
Multimodal alarm behavior in urban and rural gray squirrels studied by means of observation and a mechanical robot (2010, background): “Webb and Blumstein (2005) suggested that there may be individual differences in tolerance of human disturbances in seagulls, which could lead to group differences if seagulls self-select their habitat.”
Does intruder group size and orientation affect flight initiation distance in birds? (2005, background): “…flock size –Burger & Gochfeld, 1991; speed of predator –Cooper, 2003; distance from protection –Dill & Houtman, 1989; type of disturbance –Rodgers & Smith, 1997; intruder starting distance –Blumstein, 2003; dan-gerousness of the predator –McLean & Godin, 1989; availability of cover –LaGory, 1987).”
Antipredator strategies of house finches: are urban habitats safe spots from predators even when humans are around? (2009, background): “Even though starting distance can affect flight initiation distance (Blumstein 2003), we included alert distance instead of starting distance in the final model since the former distance had a greater degree of association with flight initiation distance.”
Predator lethality, optimal escape behavior, and autotomy (2010, background): “…the effects of starting distance, which is the distance from prey when the predator begins to approach, led to recognition of a zone beyond which prey do not detect a predator or may detect it but not react because risk is at background level (Blumstein 2003; Stankowich and Coss 2006).”
Effects of risk assessment, predator behavior, and habitat on escape behavior in Columbian black-tailed deer (2007, background): “…with both the distance at which the predator begins its approach and the distance at which the prey becomes alert to the predator (respectively, ‘‘starting distance’’ and ‘‘alert distance’’; birds: Blumstein 2003; Blumstein et al. 2005; lizards: Cooper 2005; deer: Stankowich and Coss 2006).”
Evaluating methods to quantify anthropogenic stressors on wild animals (2007, methodology): “Ecological differences between populations may account for differences in FID but, if measured, these may be statistically controlled for (e.g., Ikuta and Blumstein, 2003).”
Habituation and habitat changes can moderate the impacts of human disturbance on shorebird breeding performance (2007, background): “The reaction of incubating birds to an approach is affected by starting distance, approach direction and speed (Burger & Gochfeld, 1981; Blumstein, 2003).”
Sensitivity of wildlife to spatial patterns of recreationist behavior: A critical assessment of minimum approaching distances and buffer areas for grassland birds (2005, background): “Considerable variation in FID is typically explained by the distance at which observers begin their experimental approach (Blumstein, 2003), which is”
Habituation and sensitization: new thoughts about old ideas (2016, unknown): “For instance, body size (Blumstein, 2006) and starting distance or alert distance (Blumstein, 2003, 2010; Samia & Blumstein, 2014; Samia, Nomura, & Blumstein, 2013) explain a considerable amount of variation in FID: large animals and animals that alert and flee at greater distances when approached.”
Ungulate flight responses to human disturbance: a review and meta-analysis. (2008, background): “…and Coss, 2006) because animals likely accrue time costs (e.g., lost foraging or mating opportunities) while continuously monitoring an approacher (Blumstein, 2003; Cooper and Frederick, 2007), but there is considerable interspecies variation in the direction of the relationship between FID and…”
Fear in animals: a meta-analysis and review of risk assessment (2005, background): “Prey seem also to evaluate the distance at which a predator begins its approach (Blumstein 2003).”
Towards ecologically meaningful and socially acceptable buffers: Response distances of shorebirds in Victoria, Australia, to human disturbance (2011, background): “‘Starting distances’ (the istance between the observer and the focal birds) was maximised o ensure no ‘startling’ occurred (Blumstein, 2003) and was meaured before each approach.”