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Journal Articles (Psychology)
Items in this Collection
- 2Campbell, Kimberley A.
- 2Scully, Erin N.
- 1Bayne, Erin M.
- 1Congdon, Jenna V.
- 1Hahn, Allison H.
- 1Montenegro, Carolina
- 2operant conditioning
- 1black-capped chickadee
- 1black-capped chickadees
- 1female song
- 1individual identification
- 1predator perception
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2020-02-27
Congdon, Jenna V., Hahn, Allison H., Campbell, Kimberley A., Scully, Erin N., Yip, Daniel A., Bayne, Erin M., Sturdy, Christopher B.
Smaller owls and hawks are high-threat predators to small songbirds, like chickadees, in comparison to larger avian predators due to smaller raptors’ agility (Templeton et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci 104:5479–5482, 2005). The current literature focuses only on high- and low-threat predators. We...
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Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) can identify individual females by their fee-bee songs
Download2020-07-01
Montenegro, Carolina, Service, William D., Scully, Erin N., Campbell, Kimberley A., Sturdy, Christopher B
Individual recognition is a social behavior that occurs in many bird species. A bird’s ability to discriminate among familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics is critical to avoid wasting resources such as time and energy during social interactions. Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) are...