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The Dominance Hierarchy Of The Black-Capped Chickadee And It's Relation To Breeding Territory And Frequency Of Visitation To An Artificial Food Source, Craig Thompson
Field Station Bulletins
A peck-dominant type of dominance hierarchy was demonstrated in a group of twenty-one Black-capped Chickadees and was consistent with what is expected of this species of Paridae at the interflock level. No significant correlations were found between dominance and frequency of visitation to the study feeder, between dominance and distance from feeder to 1980 breeding territory, and between distance to territory and frequency of visitation.
Behavioral Studies Of Black-Capped Chickadees At The Uwm Field Station, Millicent S. Ficken
Behavioral Studies Of Black-Capped Chickadees At The Uwm Field Station, Millicent S. Ficken
Field Station Bulletins
This report summarizes studies of the behavior of Black-capped Chickadees (Parus atricapillus) conducted at the UWM Field Station since 1970. Vocalizations and responses to predators are emphasized. Chickadees are very social and their calls are more complex than those of non-social avian species.
Sex Identification In Black-Capped Chickadees, Charles M. Weise
Sex Identification In Black-Capped Chickadees, Charles M. Weise
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At the UWM Field Station we have been banding chickadees since 1965, and color banding since 1967. Since 1970, I have conducted an intensive study of the population ecology of this species involving observations of the winter flock organization, dominance orders in flocks, territorial behavior in spring and summer, nesting success, dispersal of fledged young and survival of young from summer to winter. The objective is to understand how the chickadee population is regulated. The population occupies 750 acres of upland forests and bog forests and, at any one time, consists of 200-300 birds, virtually all color-banded for individual recognition. …
Predator Recognition Through Audition In The Black-Capped Chickadee (Parus Airicapillus), Karen Apel
Predator Recognition Through Audition In The Black-Capped Chickadee (Parus Airicapillus), Karen Apel
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The behavior of bird species toward a potential predator has been investigated in various studies in which a live or model predator has been presented to the subject(s). However, with the exception of a few reports of the responses of birds to imitated calls of different birds of prey (e.g., Miller, 1952), little work has been done on how a bird's behavior is influenced by the vocalizations of predators. The purpose of this study was to record the behavior of free-living Black-capped Chickadees (Parus atricapillus) when tape-recorded calls of predatory birds were played back to them.