Mountain chickadees adjust songs, calls and chorus composition with increasing ambient and experimental anthropogenic noise
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DOI: 10.1007/s11252-017-0652-7
Abstract: Vocal plasticity may allow birds to reduce masking effects of noise pollution arising from urbanization. Mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli) use both songs and calls during the dawn chorus, which vary in masking susceptibility. Thus, increasing… read more here.
Keywords: calls chorus; songs calls; noise; mountain chickadees ... See more keywords