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Natural Noise Can Influence Bird Foraging And Vigilance Behavior, Kate Antonia Sweet
Natural Noise Can Influence Bird Foraging And Vigilance Behavior, Kate Antonia Sweet
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Natural sounds are an often overlooked, yet important component of an animal’s habitat. The acoustic environment may be especially significant during foraging, because a noisy world can limit auditory surveillance. Here, we investigated how natural noise structures the foraging vigilance trade-off to understand how intense acoustic environments may have shaped antipredator behavior across the evolutionary past, and better inform conservation efforts in the present.
First, in Chapter 1, I directly compared the foraging and vigilance behaviors of captive song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) in anthropogenic and natural noise. We recorded foraging trials in 4 playback conditions (roadway traffic, whitewater …