Sentence examples for bird communication from inspiring English sources

Communities of cicadas that call simultaneously have been shown to partition acoustic space (Sueur 2002), however, the effect of these cicada signals on bird communication at the community level has not been described.

Here are the four bird vocalizations mentioned in the Bird Communication lesson.

Specifically, I am interested in how bird communication (both song and plumage) varies geographically, as well as spatial cognition and female mating decisions.

Ecologist Christopher Lepczyk of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, adds that the broad scope of the study provides the best evidence yet that urbanization can affect bird communication.

Breezy bird communication may be so common, she adds, because the same properties that make feathers good for flying they're stiff but elastic also prime them for making noise.

Plumage coloration is important for bird communication, most notably in sexual signalling.

Here, we demonstrate that a single cicada species plays a major role in the frequency and timing of acoustic communication in a neotropical wet forest bird community.

Say you're a scientist trying to study the effects of human-produced noise on bird communities in the wild — an interesting topic given how dependent birds are on vocal communication.

That seems to suggest that the complexity of bird call communication is relatively low.

To date, the majority of studies on this topic have focused on songbirds, which might contribute to a biased view of bird vocal communication.

However, recent studies suggest that this view needs to be reconsidered as there is a growing body of evidence indicating the significance of vocal tract filtering in bird vocal communication as well.