Response to conspecific and heterospecific alarm calls in mixed-species bird flocks of a Sri Lankan rainforest

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 887-894

  Goodale, Eben ^a,b   Kotagama, Sarath W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Alarm response; Interspecific communication; Mixed species flocks; Playback experiments; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSPECIFIC; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; RAINFOREST; SONGBIRD;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DICRURUS PARADISEUS; GARRULAX CINEREIFRONS; TIMALIIDAE; TROGONIFORMES; TURDOIDES RUFESCENS;

EID: 47649083024     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arn045     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Beauchamp G. 2004. Reduced flocking by birds on islands with relaxed predation. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 271:1039-1042.
2. Blumstein DT, Verneyre L, Daniel JC. 2004. Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callers. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 271:1851-1857.
3. Dolby AS, Grubb TC Jr. 1998. Benefits to satellite members in mixed-species foraging groups: an experimental analysis. Anim Behav. 56:501-509.
4. Elgar MA. 1989. Predator vigilance and group size in mammals and birds: a critical review of the empirical evidence. Biol Rev. 64:13-33.
5. Ficken MS. 2000. Call similarities among mixed-species flock associates. Southwest Nat. 45:154-158.
6. Gaddis P. 1980. Mixed flocks, accipiters, and antipredator behavior. Condor. 82:348-349.
7. Goodale E, Kotagama SW. 2005a. Alarm calling in Sri Lankan mixed-species bird flocks. Auk. 122:108-120.
8. Goodale E, Kotagama SW. 2005b. Testing the roles of species in mixed-species bird flocks of a Sri Lankan rainforest. J Trop Ecol. 21:669-676.
9. Goodale E, Kotagama SW. 2006. Context-dependent mimicry by a passerine bird. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 273:875-880.
10. Greenberg R. 2000. Birds of many feathers: the formation and structure of mixed-species flocks of forest birds. In: Boinski S, Garber PA, editors. On the move: how and why animals travel in groups. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 521-558.
11. Greig-Smith PW. 1981. The role of alarm responses in the formation of mixed-species flocks of heathland birds. Behav Ecol Sociobiol. 8:7-10.
12. Hino T. 1998. Mutualistic and commensal organization of avian mixed-species foraging flocks in a forest of western Madagascar. J Avian Biol. 29:17-24.
13. Hutto RL. 1994. The composition and social organization of mixed-species flocks in a tropical deciduous forest in Western Mexico. Condor. 96:105-118.
14. Klump GM, Shalter MD. 1984. Acoustic behaviour of birds and mammals in the predator context. I. Factors affecting the structure of alarm calls. II. The functional significance and evolution of alarm calls. Z Tierpsychol. 66:189-226.
15. Koops MA. 2004. Reliability and the value of information. Anim Behav. 67:103-111.
16. Kotagama SW, Goodale E. 2004. The composition and spatial organization of mixed-species flocks in a Sri Lankan rainforest. Forktail. 20:63-70.
17. Kroodsma DE, Byers BE, Goodale E, Johnson S, Liu W-C. 2001. Pseudoreplication in playback experiments, revisited a decade later. Anim Behav. 61:1029-1033.
18. Leavesley AJ, Magrath RD. 2005. Communicating about danger: urgency alarm calling in a bird. Anim Behav. 70:365-373.
19. Lima SL. 1993. Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on escape from predatory attack: a survey of North American birds. Wilson Bull. 105:1-47.
20. Lima SL. 1995. Collective detection of predatory attack by social foragers: fraught with ambiguity? Anim Behav. 50:1097-1108.
21. Magrath R, Pitcher B, Gardner J. 2007. A mutual understanding? Interspecific responses by birds to each other's aerial alarm calls. Behav Ecol. 18:944-951.
22. Marler P. 1955. Characteristics of some animal calls. Nature. 176:6-8.
23. Morse DH. 1970. Ecological aspects of some mixed-species foraging flocks of birds. Ecol Monogr. 40:119-168.
24. Morse DH. 1977. Feeding behavior and predator avoidance in heterospecific groups. Bioscience. 27:332-339.
25. Moynihan M. 1962. The organization and probable evolution of some mixed-species flocks of Neotropical birds. Smithson Misc Coll. 143:1-140.
26. Munn CA. 1986. Birds that 'cry wolf'. Nature. 391:143-145.
27. Munn CA 3rd. 1984. The behavioral ecology of mixed-species bird flocks in Amazonian Peru [PhD thesis]. [Princeton (NJ)]: Princeton University.
28. Munn CA, Terborgh JW. 1979. Multi-species territoriality in Neotropical foraging flocks. Condor. 81:338-347.
29. Podos J. 2001. Correlated evolution of morphology and vocal signal structure in Darwin's finches. Nature. 409:185-188.
30. Ragusa-Netto J. 2002. Vigilance towards raptors by nuclear species in bird mixed flocks in a Brazilian savannah. Stud Neotrop Fauna Environ. 37:219-226.
31. Rainey HJ, Zuberbühler K, Slater PJB. 2004. Hornbills can distinguish between primate alarm calls. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 271:755-759.
32. Sokal RR, Rohlf FJ. 1995. Biometry: the principles and practice of statistics in biological research. 3rd ed. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.
33. Stensland E, Angerbjörn A, Berggren P. 2003. Mixed species groups in mammals. Mamm Rev. 33:205-223.
34. Sullivan K. 1985. Selective alarm calling by downy woodpeckers in mixed-species flocks. Auk. 102:184-187.
35. Sullivan KA. 1984. The advantages of social foraging in downy woodpeckers. Anim Behav. 32:16-22.
36. Templeton CN, Greene E. 2007. Nuthatches eavesdrop on variations in heterospecific chickadee mobbing alarm calls. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 104:5479-5482.
37. Terborgh J. 1990. Mixed flocks and polyspecific associations: costs and benefits of mixed groups to birds and monkeys. Am J Primatol. 21:87-100.
38. Thiollay J-M. 1999. Frequency of mixed-species flocking in tropical forest birds and correlates of predation risk: an intertropical comparison. J Avian Biol. 30:282-294.
39. Thiollay J-M, Jullien M. 1998. Flocking behaviour of foraging birds in a neotropical rain forest and the antipredator defence hypothesis. Ibis. 140:382-394.